gabardine

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  1. noun A sturdy, tightly woven fabric of cotton, wool, or rayon twill. Also called gaberdine.
  2. noun See gaberdine.
  3. noun Chiefly British A laborer's long loose smock; a gaberdine.

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  • Though his legs were encased in gabardine, Anna guessed the glamour stopped at his belt. —  Scanned ; Semi-Proofed by Cozette
  • He pointed to a tall neat gabardine-suited bloke, who had bid last in a foreign accent. —  The Vatican Rip-Jonathan Gash- Lovejoy 05
  • Her formal dress of gray gabardine was buttoned high to the neck with a thin band of white linen around the throat and cuffs. —  Shroud for a Nightingale
  • He saw the gabardine-coated man he knew to be the master mind, but could pick out nothing which might later identify the fellow The flare burned away. —  006 - The Red Skull
  • Whitsun was a traditional time for buying clothes in the textile towns and usually brought a new summer dress, a light coat or a gabardine raincoat my way.
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/gæbərˈdin, ərˈdin/
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