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Definition: Tabard |
TabardNoun1. A short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "tabard" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Etymology: Tabard \Tab"ard\, noun. [from Old English expression tabard, tabart; compage to the Spanish expression Portuguese tabardo, Italian tabarro, Welsh tabar; Late Latin expression tabardum.]. (Websters 1913) |
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Literature | Tabard The Tabard, in Southwark, is where Chaucer supposes his pilgrims to have assembled. The tabard was a jacket without sleeves, whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar, winged at the shoulder like a cape, and worn by military nobles over their armour. It was generally emblazoned with heraldic devices. Heralds still wear a tabard. "Item ... a chascun ung grand tabart De cordelier, jusques aux pieds." Le Petit Testament de Maistre Franpois Villon. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A similar garment with short sleemes or without sleeves was worn in the middle ages by knights over their armour, and was also emblazoned with their arms or worn plain.
The name was also given in earlier days to a much humbler similar garment of rough frieze worn by peasants; the ploughman wears a tabard in the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales.
Similarly at Queens College, Oxford, the scholars on the foundation were called tabarders, from the tabard, obviously not an emblazoned garment, which they wore.
It can also be the British English word for a cobbler apron.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Tabard."
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Clothing | Cloak, pall, mantle, mantlet mantua, shawl, pelisse, wrapper; veil; cape, tippet, kirtle, plaid, muffler, comforter, haik, huke, chlamys, mantilla, tabard, housing, horse cloth, burnoose, burnous, roquelaure; houppelande; surcoat, overcoat, great coat; surtout, spencer; mackintosh, waterproof, raincoat; ulster, P-coat, dreadnought, wraprascal, poncho, cardinal, pelerine; barbe, chudder, jubbah, oilskins, pajamas, pilot jacket, talma |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Tabard |
| English words defined with "tabard": Tabarder, Taberd. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "tabard": Canterbury Tales. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Tabard" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. French (tabard), Manx (tabard). |
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| "Tabard" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 54.17% of the time. "Tabard" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 54.17% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Noun (proper) | 45.83% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
tabard inn | 29 |
tabard | 24 |
tabard inn washington dc | 5 |
pattern sewing tabard | 5 |
inn southwark tabard | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "tabard"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | pardesy (overcoat, slicker, topcoat, trench coat). (various references) | |
Arabic | سترة قصيرة (tunic). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | наметало (mantle, poncho, tippet), дреха на средновековен вестител. (various references) | |
Danish | arbejdsvest. (various references) | |
Dutch | werkjas. (various references) | |
French | tabard, veste de travail. (various references) | |
German | Arbeitssicherheitsweste. (various references) | |
Greek | χλαμύσ, ταμπάρο. (various references) | |
Hungarian | uralkodó címerét feltüntető kabát, ujjatlan kabát, ujjatlan (dicky, sleeveless), rövid ujjú rövid kabát, rövid kabát (half-length coat, sheepskin coat), lovagi köntös. (various references) | |
Italian | giubbotto di lavoro. (various references) | |
Manx | tabard. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abardtay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tabardo, vestuário de trabalho, manto de arauto. (various references) | |
Russian | камзол герольда. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kratak kaput (half-length coat). (various references) | |
Spanish | tabardo, chaleco de trabajo. (various references) | |
Turkish | cüppe (cassock, chasuble, frock, gown, robe, surcoat, surplice, vestment). (various references) | |
Ukranian | костюм герольда. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "tabard": tabarded, tabards. (additional references) | |
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"Tabard" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atbara, d'abord, Djabord, Etibar, Gabbard, kabaddi, tabar, tabarri, tabern, tabir, taboard, Taborda, tabram, Tirard, Trabaldo, Trabert, Tzabar. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "tabard" (pronounced 'Tab"ard'): Bayard, Becard, Blinkard, Brocard, Byard, Drunkard, Dullard, Hasard, Izard, Jeopard, leopard, lizard, Picard, Poachard, Renard, tankard, Unvisard, Wisard. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-d-r-t" | |
-1 letter: rabat. | |
-2 letters: bard, brad, brat, darb, dart, data, drab, drat, trad. | |
-3 letters: aba, arb, art, baa, bad, bar, bat, bra, dab, rad, rat, tab, tad, tar. | |
-4 letters: aa, ab, ad, ar, at, ba, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-d-r-t" | |
+1 letter: bastard, tabards. | |
+2 letters: abradant, bastards, bastardy, boatyard, tabarded, tagboard, teaboard, tradable. | |
+3 letters: abdicator, aberrated, abradants, abreacted, abrogated, acerbated, adsorbate, adumbrate, bastardly, boatyards, broadcast, broadtail, dartboard, draftable, starboard, tackboard, tagboards, tailboard, teaboards, trabeated, tradeable, trainband. | |
+4 letters: abdicators, abstracted, adsorbates, adumbrated, adumbrates, approbated, arbitraged, arbitrated, astarboard, balustrade, bandmaster, bardolater, bardolatry, bastardies, bastardise, bastardize, brachiated, broadcasts, broadtails, calibrated, carbonated, contraband, dartboards, elaborated, fabricated, matchboard, pasteboard, patchboard, skateboard, starboards, tackboards, tailboards, threadbare, trainbands. | |
+5 letters: abbreviated, adorability, adumbrating, adumbration, adumbrative, backtracked, balustraded, balustrades, bandmasters, bardolaters, bastardised, bastardises, bastardized, bastardizes, biquadratic, breadbasket, breakfasted, broadcasted, broadcaster, contrabands, debarkation, decarbonate, drapability, exacerbated, hairbreadth, handbreadth, labradorite, masturbated, matchboards, mortarboard, pasteboards, patchboards, readability, rebroadcast, roadability, sandblaster, skateboards, starboarded, substandard, tabernacled. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 61 62 61 72 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- .- -... .- .-. -.. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100001 01100010 01100001 01110010 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T a b a r d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0061 0062 0061 0072 0064 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)546768678470 |
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