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  • noun Plural form of gaberdine.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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.

    How the Two Ivans Quarrelled 2003

  • There never were such gaberdines in the world before.

    Taras Bulba 2003

  • Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them.

    Taras Bulba 2003

  • There never were such gaberdines in the world before.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • 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.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • They used rich Persian shawls for sashes, and girded their dirty gaberdines with them.

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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