gabardine
Example Sentences
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One night before bed, M. Benamar shreds the silk lining from a pair of worn gabardine pants to craft a belt for his daughter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 20, 2025
Exquisite pieces crafted in double cashmere and gabardine spanned little dresses, pants, coats, jackets and skirts, boldly cut above the knee, marking a chic, pared-down approach.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Mallory and Irvine, wearing wool and gabardine, hobnailed leather boots and homemade oxygen sets, disappeared into a swirling cloud on that fateful day, never to be seen alive again.
From Salon ● Apr. 8, 2022
In fact, purists insist that the best versions are the stiff, gabardine PE shorts sold in John Lewis’s school uniform department for less than a tenner.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
And no one’s stopping, and she’s lying there on her back, a bulky fifty-odd woman in a poor-person green coat, gabardine, and lamentable shoes all cracked, her arms outflung.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
