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A Jewish coarse cloak. (Spanish, gavardina, a long coarse cloak.)
“You call me misbeliever, cut-throat dog,
And spit upon my Jewish gabardine.”
Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice, i. 3.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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