Gaberdine

[82] A gaberdine is a shaggy cloak of coarse but warm materials. ❋ 750? BC-650? BC Homer (1765)

Only yesterday my year 7s were falling about watching two of their number lying on the floor in front of the whiteboard, fooling about under a "gaberdine". ❋ Unknown (2010)

I was bought a navy gaberdine raincoat when I was about six with plenty of room to grow into. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I didn't grow much until I was about fourteen by which time it was still functioning as a mini gaberdine raincoat as per the fashion and with the belt buckled around the back as you did. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It's not Seasonal Affective Disorder or anything, just that the new year always feels like a gaberdine raincoat that's far too big and baggy and I wallow around in it for a while feeling all wrong, out of step and in danger of tripping over all day long. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is in black gaberdine with a tall hat on his head and a long white tube of a nose hiding all his face. ❋ Philippa Gregory (2009)

I held it in my arms: a nightshirt, nightcap, and slippers, pantaloons and gaberdine, a skullcap, gloves, and overshoes—all in the order in which they would be required. ❋ Gyles Brandreth (2009)

Remember the time you (as in me) arrived back off a late duty carrying a "borrowed" and still lit road lamp to provide mood lighting for one of our parties and tucked it under your gaberdine raincoat? ❋ Unknown (2007)

But his grace knows the word of a Varangian, and I can assure him that either lucre of my silver gaberdine, which they nickname a cuirass, or the hatred of my corps, would be sufficient to incite any of these knaves to cut the throat of a ❋ Unknown (2008)