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单词 gaberdine
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Definition of gaberdine in English:

gaberdine

(North American gabardine)
nounˌɡabəˈdiːnˈɡabədiːn
  • 1mass noun A smooth, durable twill-woven worsted or cotton cloth.

    轧别丁,华达呢

    as modifier a gaberdine suit
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The small size also allows us to observe textural differences, such as the distinction between wool gabardine and cotton shirting, without the substances becoming unduly associative.
    • You may want a cleaner that is doing a lot of hand ironing and soft steaming as opposed to machine pressing, which is death to a fabric like gabardine.
    • Firm, stable fabrics such as melton and gabardine hold the cut edge shape with minimal staystitching.
    • Although gabardine is a popular fabric, it is one that shines prematurely.
    • Cut sections 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 14 and 15 from wool gabardine along the fabric straight of grain.
    • Look for classics updated in fabrics such as corduroy, wool woven in gabardine, herringbone and glen plaid.
    • Look for all-season fabrics like wool gabardine, cotton blends or rayon crepe.
    • He had a light blue gabardine suit with very tight pants.
    • The tanned, trim body was wearing a blue-and-white striped jersey with the sleeves pushed up and gabardine pants.
    • Once we entered the building, I just stared at all the fabric, completely awestruck by all the silk, wool, gabardine - whatever you could possibly want.
    • Although my school days were spent wearing dredged-pond green gabardine, I'm now hugely relieved that I never felt any pressure to look good in the classroom.
    • During World War II he acquired a government contract to manufacture covert and gabardine trousers.
    • Technology and the Internet are also taking interest away from the wonders of wool and gabardine, he said.
    • I think price is an issue only when it's a basic replacement item, like a gabardine suit.
    • For daywear, I have used gabardine and crepe and for evening, there are vibrant silks and chiffon.
    • They are made of various fabrics (wool crepe, wool gabardine, cotton), but are all dry clean only.
    • So look for mid-weight gabardine and worsted wool, which are comfortable in all temperatures.
    • They were basically condemned to flowing tents and baggy ill-fitting gabardine outfits displayed in middle-class department stores.
    • A good worsted wool has nap or texture, is less subject to shine, and will wear longer than gabardine.
    • Authenticity is found in English herringbone, cotton gabardine and corduroy.
    1. 1.1British count noun A raincoat made of gaberdine.
      〈英〉华达呢雨衣
      Willie hung his gaberdine and cap on his peg
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The girl wore a wide rimmed black hat full with dark lace, a black gabardine and she stood on the toes of her shinny black buckle shoes to place the rose.
      • My last school gaberdine was new for my fourth year, although by then school coat regulation had begun to relax.
      • They were not much to look at-tanned, tattered, inhabited, maybe, but under their frowsy gaberdines was a complete mail of money belts, and they were just as good as gold.
      • Was that really how I looked, I wondered, how I appeared to others, the gabardine sitting rakishly on the shoulders, the sleeves hanging free?
      • Surrounded by a sea of heavy overcoats and gabardines, he finally caught the eye of a barman.
      • He also undertook to give a touch to Ignacio-adult's gabardines and shorts.
      • The firm makes denims, drills, general protective clothing and gaberdines.
      • They wore jackets of Scotch tweed and flannel suits in winter, blue blazers and gabardines in summer; all of it they'd had tailored by New Haven tailors like Chipp or Langrock's.
  • 2historical A long, loose upper garment, worn particularly by Jews.

    〈史〉(尤指犹太人穿的)粗布长袍;乞丐袍

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The Jewish quarter, known as Podol, was teeming with Orthodox Jews with their sidelocks and long gaberdines, much like those who lived at the lower end of Krochmalna.
    • The Jews dressed in long gaberdines, in hats hemmed with fox fur, walk in the streets.
    • Outside of the Ghetto the modern Shylock is envisioned as a man of mode, whose proverbial gabardine has been replaced by the latest Parisian cry.

Origin

Early 16th century: from Old French gauvardine, earlier gallevardine, perhaps from Middle High German wallevart 'pilgrimage' and originally 'a garment worn by a pilgrim'. The textile sense is first recorded in the early 20th century.

Rhymes

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