TABARD

Tabard

A tabard is a short coat common for men during the Middle Ages. Generally used while outdoors, the coat was either sleeveless or had short sleeves or shoulder pieces. In its more developed form it was open at the sides; and it could be worn with or without a belt. Though most were ordinary garments, often workclothes, tabards might be emblazoned on the front and back with a coat of arms, and in this form they survive now as the distinctive garment of officers of arms.

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tabard

Noun

  1. A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.
  2. A woman's or girl's sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.
  3. A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.
  4. A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.
  5. A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.


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