Want to find out what does the word gabardine mean? We gathered all the possible definitions of the word gabardine on our website. Our definition dictionary is updated all the time with new definitions and is ready to help you.
gabardine
Part of speech: NounA kind of coat or cloak for rainy weather. Also, gaberdine.
Usage examples "gabardine":- With a hurried word of praise he flung the gabardine about her, grasped her arm, and bade her keep her eyes firmly fixed upon the lions; then, step by step, those two foolhardy young persons backed slowly out of the danger into which they had so thoughtlessly and unnecessarily forced themselves. - "Historic Girls", E. S. Brooks.
- At the age of ten he was apprenticed to his father, who undertook, according to the indentures, to provide him with board and lodging, a blue gabardine and a pair of good shoes, and various other matters in return for his service. - "Christopher Columbus, Complete", Filson Young.
- He spread out the skirts of his gabardine and pirouetted between the lines of tethered horses. - "The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories", Rudyard Kipling.