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Definition of Gabardines
1. gabardine [n] - See also: gabardine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gabardines
Literary usage of Gabardines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vaudeville Theatre, Building, Operation, Management by Edward Renton (1918)
"... and gabardines. The upkeep of white duck makes it more expensive in the long
run than any other material, and as it is not very "dressy," its ..."
2. Hansard's Parliamentary Debates by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1848)
"But if to spit upon their gabardines, and to call them Jews, was considered
persecution, what were they to say of the imputations, and those of the severest ..."
3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"their ample gabardines. They succeeded in getting inside the triple Norman doors
before they were detected. We may be sure that the time they had chosen was ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"The Florentine people, inquisitive then as now, liked to behold the new hats,
new hoods, new dresses, mantles, and gabardines in which their townsfolk were ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... hung out on every hedge, and paltry as beggars' gabardines, he says, 'What
use is in a King? This King's-cloak, if this be your King, is naught! ..."
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