tabard

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It was cut like a Viollet-le-Duc tabard, and had not a trace of the fashion of the time.

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  1. noun A short, heavy cape of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors.
  2. noun A tunic or capelike garment worn by a knight over his armor and emblazoned with his coat of arms.
  3. noun A similar garment worn by a herald and bearing his lord's coat of arms.
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  • In the course of his lounging about the camp, however, he got possession of a deer skin; whereupon, cutting a slit in the middle, he thrust his head through it, so that the two ends hung down before and behind, something like a South American poncho, or the tabard of a herald. —  The Adventures of Captain Bonneville
  • If you prefer dungeons, however, just get to Friendly with someone, pick up their tabard, and you can get rep with them in any dungeon you want. timmy! asked ... —  WoW.com
  • Roger Livesey's voice flapjack saying the word 'tabard' —  Word Magazine - Comments
  • But Balliol was an unpopular weakling--"an empty tabard," the people said--and Edward at once subjected him, king as he was, to all the humiliations of a petty vassal. —  A Short History of Scotland
  • The shaft of this umbrella, some eight or nine feet long, was carried by a sinister being, clothed in the blue livery of the Japanese artisan, a kind of tabard with close-fitting trousers. —  Kimono
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  1. Middle English, from Old French tabart or Old Spanish tabardo.

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  1. Early modern English also taberd; from Middle English tabard, tabarde, tabbard, taberd, taberde, tabart, tabare, from Old French tabard, tabart, tabar, tabarre = Spanish Portuguese tabardo = Italian tabarro (Middle Latin tabardum, tabardus, tabbardus, tabardium, tabarrus, etc.), a tabard; cf. Welsh tabar (from English), Middle High German tapphart, taphart, New Greek ταμπάριον (from Middle Latin or Roman), a tabard; origin unknown. According to Diez, perhaps from Latin tapete, figured cloth, tapestry: see tapet, tippet.
 

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