gabardine
pronunciation
How to pronounce gabardine in British English:
UK [ˌgæbəˈdi:n]
How to pronounce gabardine in American English:
US [ˈɡæbɚˌdin, ˌɡæbɚˈdin]
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- Noun:
- a firm durable fabric with a twill weave
- (usually in the plural) trousers
- a loose coverall (coat or frock) reaching down to the ankles
Word Origin
- gabardine
- gabardine: [16] The use of gabardine for a sort of worsted material is an early 20th-century development, but the word itself has been around much longer than that. Its central meaning (for which the usual spelling is gaberdine) is ‘long coarse outer garment’. English acquired it from Old French gauvardine, which was a development of an earlier gallevardine. This was probably derived from Middle High German wallevart ‘pilgrimage’ (a compound formed from wallen ‘roam’ and vart ‘journey, way’), and hence etymologically meant ‘pilgrim’s garment’.
- gabardine (n.)
- 1590s, "dress, covering," variant of gaberdine. Meaning "closely woven cloth" is from 1904.
Example
- 1. I was wearing my father 's beige gabardine .
- 2. I 'll see to it . Button up that gabardine .
- 3. The gabardine name was used under exclusive trademark by burberry until 1917 .
- 4. It says on the label it 's made of gabardine .
- 5. She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy ?