gaberdine

[ UK /ɡˈæbədˌiːn/ ]
NOUN
  1. a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
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How To Use gaberdine In A Sentence

  • They were all wearing gaberdines of thick grey cloth, long beards, and bare-necked.
  • They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
  • The firm makes denims, drills, general protective clothing and gaberdines.
  • She wore only wool gaberdine slacks or jeans, and a western shirt with snaps, a scarf around her neck, and boots, always boots. DANSVILLE
  • The Jewish quarter, known as Podol, was teeming with Orthodox Jews with their sidelocks and long gaberdines, much like those who lived at the lower end of Krochmalna.
  • Only yesterday my year 7s were falling about watching two of their number lying on the floor in front of the whiteboard, fooling about under a "gaberdine". Culture | guardian.co.uk
  • He listens to the solemn intonations, and watches the bearded men in gaberdines.
  • They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
  • The Jewish quarter, known as Podol, was teeming with Orthodox Jews with their sidelocks and long gaberdines, much like those who lived at the lower end of Krochmalna.
  • My last school gaberdine was new for my fourth year, although by then school coat regulation had begun to relax.
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