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Tabard

noun

(Spelt also taberd)

A short sleeveless outer tunic emblazoned with a coat of arms; worn by a knight over his armor or by a herald.

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"Tabard" Quotes from Famous Books

... should never go to Snow Hill without memories of Fagin, or to Eastcheap without seeing Falstaff swaggering along its pavements. Bread Street would resound to us with the tread of young Milton, and Southwark with the echoes of Shakespeare's voice and the jolly laughter of the Pilgrims at the Tabard. Hogarth would accompany us about Covent Garden, and out of Bolt Court we should see the lumbering figure of Johnson emerging into his beloved Fleet Street. We would sit by the fountain in the Temple ...

— Pebbles on the Shore • Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner)

... in very good form," said the Prince. "Neither Claricieux nor Red Dragon nor any herald that ever wore tabard could better it. Did he draw it of his ...

— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle

Words linked to "Tabard" : tunic