Gabardine'
(3 syl.). 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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