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gaberdine
[ gab-er-deen, gab-er-deen ]
noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gaberdine1
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Example Sentences
He was old, and his woollen gaberdine still reeked of the stinking artemisia of the mountain passes.
A picturesque grey-headed and grey-bearded old Jew, in a shovel-hat and gaberdine.'
He wore a black gaberdine and a large hat with a turned-down brim.
I promised, as the price of your admission, to hide me under his bearish gaberdine, and prompt him in the hour of need.
A shrivelled arm, a dropsied leg, were to Ribera what a breast-plate and a gaberdine were to Rembrandt.
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