gaberdine

English

Noun

gaberdine (countable and uncountable, plural gaberdines)

Alternative form of gabardine (“long cloak”)
- 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 201:
  He was an unshaven little man in a threadbare coat like a gaberdine, with his feet in slippers, and I thought him a harmless fool.
Alternative form of gabardine (“textile”)

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