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- noun Plural form of
gaberdine .
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Examples
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Dams, pressing forward with many a blustering oath, at the head of the warriors of Hell-gate, clad in their thunder-and-lightning gaberdines; and lastly, the standard-bearers and body-guard of
Washington Irving 2004
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The drivers, in grey Cossack coats, gaberdines, and white hare-skin coats, sheepskin hats and caps of various patterns, and with pipes in their hands, drove the unharnessed horses through the yard.
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There never were such gaberdines in the world before.
Taras Bulba 2003
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Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them.
Taras Bulba 2003
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There never were such gaberdines in the world before.
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The drivers, in grey Cossack coats, gaberdines, and white hare-skin coats, sheepskin hats and caps of various patterns, and with pipes in their hands, drove the unharnessed horses through the yard.
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They used rich Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them.
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These all wore black gaberdines, black slippers, stockings that were once white, and black skull-caps over suspiciously shining love-locks.
Morocco S.L. Bensusan
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Pelts of Esopus, together with the Van Rippers and the Van Brunts, bearing down all before them; then the Suy Dams and the Van Dams, pressing forward with many a blustering oath at the head of the warriors of Hell-Gate, clad in their thunder-and-lightning gaberdines; and lastly the standard-bearers and body-guards of Peter Stuyvesant, bearing the great beaver of the Manhattoes.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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On entering we found ourselves in a small and narrow street crowded with people in yellow and grey gaberdines.
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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