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Gaberdine

noun
1.
A loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles.  Synonyms: dust coat, duster, gabardine, smock.






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"Gaberdine" Quotes from Famous Books



... a time and oft, In the Rialto you have rated me About my moneys and my usances: Still, I have borne it with a patient shrug, For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me mis-believer, cut-throat dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, 'Shylock, we would have moneys:' you say so You that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn ...
— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... not my all!" wailed the pilgrim. But his worthless gaberdine was thrust into the ...
— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

... that the water-carrier receiving the dinar, looked at the giver with disdain and said "Good luck to thee! Good luck to thee! Little folk are one thing and great folk another." Now when Mercury Ali heard this, he caught hold of the man's gaberdine and drawing on him a poignard of price, such an one as that whereof the poet speaketh in ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 7 • Richard F. Burton

... Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o' my troth! I do now let loose my opinion; hold it no longer: this is no fish, but an islander, that hath lately suffered by a thunder-bolt. [Thunder.] Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine;[412-12] there is no other shelter hereabout: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester

... time and oft In the Rialto you have rated me About my monies, and my usances:[35] Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe: You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog, And spet upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well, then, it now appears you need my help: Go to, then; you come to me, and you say, 'Shylock, we would have monies;' You say so; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard, ...
— The Merchant of Venice [liberally edited by Charles Kean] • William Shakespeare

... necklace, also of shells and fancy pebbles, hung round her neck. She seemed to be a fully developed woman, in spite of the girlishness of her flowing hair, and notwithstanding the shapeless length of her gaberdine-like garment, ...
— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... that called for no change in what I had already done. For I had worked mainly upon the head, and now that I purposed to clothe the figure in its native gaberdine, there would be little to re-draw. And so I fell to work with renewed intensity, feeling even safer now that I was painting and interpreting a real thing than when I was trying to reconstruct retrospectively the sacred figure that had walked ...
— Ghetto Comedies • Israel Zangwill

... bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing. I hear it sing in the wind. My, best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabout: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. I will here shroud, till the dregs of the ...
— The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded • Delia Bacon



Words linked to "Gaberdine" :   duster, dust coat, coverall



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