Gabʹardineʹ (3 syl.).
A Jewish coarse cloak. (Spanish, gavardina, a long coarse cloak.)
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, i. 3.
A Jewish coarse cloak. (Spanish, gavardina, a long coarse cloak.)
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, i. 3.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.