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Gabʹardineʹ (3 syl.)

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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.”


 

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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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Futile (2 syl.)
G
G.C.B
G.H.V.L
G.O.M
Gab (g hard)
Gabardine
Gabel, Gabelle (g hard)
Gaberlunzie
Gabriel (g hard)
Gabrielle
Gabrina
Gabrioletta (g hard)
Gad (g hard)
Gad-about (A)
Gad-fly
Gad-steel

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