gaberdine

• You may spit upon Shylock's gaberdine, but the day comes when he demands his pound of flesh; every blow, every insult, not without a certain satisfaction, he adds to the account running up against you in the day-book and ledger of his hate--which at the proper time he will ask you to discharge. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
• When the Judeo-Polish gaberdine, the long side-curls (peot), and the wig or turban (knup) fell into disfavor with the Government, the miserable offender caught by an officer seldom saved himself with the mere sacrifice of knup, coat, peot, and beard. —  The Haskalah Movement in Russia
• If he be a Carlyle, as his fibre and resolution, downright way of writing and speaking, hortatory gift, humour, plainness of life and dislike of officials, no less than his cast of countenance, his soft hat and long gaberdine-like coat have suggested, he is a Carlyle who is content to stay both in body and mind at Ecclefechan. —  The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People
• But his worthless gaberdine was thrust into the dwelling of the guide Meanwhile, the matron was still enveloping Path in her interminable tappas But the sad-eyed maiden, removing her upper mantle, threw it over the naked form of the beggar The fifth pilgrim was a youth of an open, ingenuous aspect; and with an eye, full of eyes; his step was light Who art thou?" —  Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)
• A man who has been to Harrow and Oxford longing for a gaberdine and side curls! —  Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People

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