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.
双语例句
1. For men there were sturdy gabardine, shinning silk shirts.
给男人用的有笔挺的哔叽, 发亮的丝衬衫.
来自辞典例句
2. Serr and Forde used 9 X 15 cm bags of tightly woven white cotton gabardine.
塞尔和福德应用了9X15厘米的密绩白色棉华达呢袋.
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3. What kind may I show you, cotton, linen, gabardine, woolen, or nylon?
您要什么样的衣料, 棉 、 麻 、 华达尼 、 羊毛, 还是尼龙布?
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4. I have a red gabardine coat.
一件红色的华达呢上衣.
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5. The affable Keefe a friendly smile cherubic countenance , a checked sports jacket and gabardine slacks.