gaberdine

[82] A gaberdine is a shaggy cloak of coarse but warm materials.

The Odyssey of Homer

Only yesterday my year 7s were falling about watching two of their number lying on the floor in front of the whiteboard, fooling about under a "gaberdine".

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I didn't grow much until I was about fourteen by which time it was still functioning as a mini gaberdine raincoat as per the fashion and with the belt buckled around the back as you did.

Harbingers

It's not Seasonal Affective Disorder or anything, just that the new year always feels like a gaberdine raincoat that's far too big and baggy and I wallow around in it for a while feeling all wrong, out of step and in danger of tripping over all day long.

Harbingers

I was bought a navy gaberdine raincoat when I was about six with plenty of room to grow into.

Harbingers

I held it in my arms: a nightshirt, nightcap, and slippers, pantaloons and gaberdine, a skullcap, gloves, and overshoes—all in the order in which they would be required.

Oscar Wilde and the Dead Man’s Smile

He is in black gaberdine with a tall hat on his head and a long white tube of a nose hiding all his face.

The White Queen

Remember the time you (as in me) arrived back off a late duty carrying a "borrowed" and still lit road lamp to provide mood lighting for one of our parties and tucked it under your gaberdine raincoat?

A special London day

But his grace knows the word of a Varangian, and I can assure him that either lucre of my silver gaberdine, which they nickname a cuirass, or the hatred of my corps, would be sufficient to incite any of these knaves to cut the throat of a

Count Robert of Paris

“Your wisdom may guess, by looking on my gaberdine,” answered the Bohemian, pointing to his dress, which was covered with seeds of hay.

Quentin Durward