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tabard
Part of speech: NounFormerly, a short, coarse outer coat; a loose garment or mantle worn over armor; the coat of an ancient herald.
Usage examples "tabard":- Nine and twenty persons, with their horses, found room in the wide chambers and stables of the Tabard in Southwark. - "The History of England from the Accession of James II. Volume 1 (of 5)", Thomas Babington Macaulay.
- She was suckling the third, and teaching her eldest, the young Fulke of Anjou, his Creed, or as much of it as she could remember, when there came up a herald from Tortosa who bore upon his tabard the three leopards of England. - "The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay", Maurice Hewlett.
- He of the tabard spoke louder than the others, and although, from the execrable endeavors he made to express himself in French, his natural voice was much altered, there was yet something in his accents which seemed perfectly familiar to me. - "Charles O'Malley, The Irish Dragoon, Volume 2 (of 2)", Charles Lever.