Gabardines

"Butte, America" is what we called it, because we were proud then and our town became famous and our men wore Oxfords, gabardines, fedoras. ❋ Meg Pokrass (2011)

Juntam-se em pequenos grupos durante a noite, vestidos com gabardines, perucas, etc. ❋ Red (2008)

It has smoke-filled stations and gabardines, a cursory but efficient sketch of Bletchley life – Georgia King puts in a shrewd turn as a yappy and randy upper-class code-breaker – and some skimpy scenes with Churchill's private secretary. ❋ Susannah Clapp (2010)

But, on the other part, the defendant shall be bound to furnish him with hay and stubble for stopping the caltrops of his throat, troubled and impulregafized, with gabardines garbled shufflingly, and friends as before, without costs and for cause. ❋ Unknown (2002)

If the material from which the cloth is made is of the best quality—laces, gabardines, silks, satins, or softly woven cottons—the sensation on the body is oh so fine. ❋ Patricia L. Pereira (1999)

Inside his and Carrie's apartment, he got out of a lamb's-wool pullover and expensive cream gabardines. ❋ Patterson, James, 1947- (1977)

Claret-coloured gabardines were fashionable, and a black skull-cap inevitable. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)

MISSES 'DRESSES: Dresses of imported serges and gabardines, for street wear, and a number of exclusive knit cloth models in attractive colorings for sports wear -- sizes 14 to 18 years. ❋ Mary Owens Crowther (N/A)

Thyrsis had not spent any of his time delving into other people's books for "local color"; he was not relying for his effects upon gabardines and hauberks, and ❋ Upton Sinclair (1923)

One morning the tramp docked at Alexandria, and from the deck he looked at the city, white in the sunlight, and the crowd on the wharf; he saw the natives in their shabby gabardines, the blacks from the Soudan, the noisy throng of Greeks and Italians, the grave Turks in tarbooshes, the sunshine and the blue sky; and something happened to him. ❋ Unknown (1919)

Grooms were those four, as all the world might see at the first glance, and the livery they wore was that of the noble House of Santafior -- the holy white flower of the quince being embroidered on the breast of their gabardines. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

Among the many oppressive Spanish enactments against the Children of Israel, it was prescribed that all should wear the distinguishing circlet of red cloth on the shoulder of their gabardines; that they should reside within the walled confines of their ghettos and never be found beyond them after nightfall, and that they should not practice as doctors, surgeons, apothecaries, or innkeepers. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

With them were the men of the family, in black gabardines and skull-caps, sallow striplings, incalculably aged ancestors, round-bellied husbands and fathers bumping along like black balloons, all hastening to the low doorways dressed with lamps and paper garlands behind which the feast was spread. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Middle Ages, and until lately the men have been compelled to go unarmed, to wear black gabardines and black slippers, to take off their shoes when they passed near a mosque or a saint's tomb, and in various other ways to manifest their subjection to the ruling race. ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)

Then into the Feddan, the square marketplace, came pouring from their own little quarter within its separate walls a throng of Jewish people, in their black gabardines and skull-caps, men and women and children, carrying banners that bore loyal inscriptions, twanging at tambourines and crying in wild discords, "God bless our Lord!" ❋ Hall Caine (1892)

A picturesque majority of Polish Jews, whom some vice of their climate is said peculiarly to fit for the healing effects of Carlsbad, most took his eye in their long gabardines of rusty black and their derby hats of plush or velvet, with their corkscrew curls coming down before their ears. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)