different between gabardine vs worsted

English

Alternative forms

• gaberdine
• garbardine

Etymology

Recorded since 1904, altering the earlier gaberdine (“long, coarse outer garment”) (since 1520), from Spanish gabardina (perhaps influenced by gabán (“overcoat”) and tabardina (“coarse coat”)), from Middle French galverdine, itself probably from (Old or Middle) High German wallevart (“pilgrimage”), in the sense of “pilgrim's cloak” (from wallen (“to ambulate”) + vart (“journey”)).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??æb??di?n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??æb??din/

Noun

gabardine (usually uncountable, plural gabardines)

1. (uncountable, countable) A type of woolen cloth with a diagonal ribbed texture on one side.

2. (uncountable, countable) A similar fabric, made from cotton.
3. (countable) A gaberdine (garment).
4. (countable, historical) A yellow robe that Jews in England were compelled to wear in the year 1189 as a mark of distinction.

Translations

Further reading

• gabardine on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• bargained

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English gabardine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.b?r?di.n?/

Adjective

gabardine (not comparable)

1. made from gabardine

Inflection

Noun

gabardine f (plural gabardines, diminutive gabardinetje n)

1. The woolen (cloth) Gabardine
2. An overcoat or raincoat (of this material)

References

• “gabardine” in Woordenlijst Nederlandse Taal – Officiële Spelling, Nederlandse Taalunie. [the official spelling word list for the Dutch language]

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish gabardina (perhaps influenced by gabán (“overcoat”) and tabardina (“coarse coat”)), from Middle French galverdine, itself probably from (Old or Middle) High German wallevart (“pilgrimage”), in the sense of "pilgrim's cloak"

Pronunciation

Noun

gabardine f (plural gabardines)

1. The woolen cloth gaberdine
2. A long coat with sleeves, notably a raincoat

Further reading

• “gabardine” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from French, from Spanish gabardina (perhaps influenced by gabán (“overcoat”) and tabardina (“coarse coat”)), from Middle French galverdine, itself probably from (Old or Middle) High German wallevart (“pilgrimage”) in the sense of "pilgrim's cloak"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.bar?di.ne/

Noun

gabardine m (invariable)

1. The woolen cloth gabardine
2. An overcoat or raincoat, (originally) of this material

Portuguese

Noun

gabardine f (plural gabardines)

1. Alternative form of gabardina

English

Etymology 1

Named after Worsted (now Worstead), a town in Norfolk, England.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: wo?os?t?d, IPA^(key): /?w?s.t?d/
• (US): enPR: wo?os?t?d, wûrst??d, IPA^(key): /?w?s.t?d/, /?w?.st?d/

Noun

worsted (countable and uncountable, plural worsteds)

1. Yarn made from long strands of wool.
   • 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, Volume III, Chapter 29,^[1]

     An old set-stitched chair, valanced and fringed around with party-coloured worsted bobs, stood at the bed’s head opposite to the side where my father’s head reclined.

   • 1871, Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, Chapter 1:^[2]

     […] the kitten had been having a grand game of romps with the ball of worsted Alice had been trying to wind up, and had been rolling it up and down till it had all come undone again […]
2. The fine, smooth fabric made from such wool yarn.
   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Chapter 4,^[4]

     [...] the undertaker’s wife opened a side door, and pushed Oliver down a steep flight of stairs into a stone cell, damp and dark: forming the ante-room to the coal-cellar, and denominated ‘kitchen’; wherein sat a slatternly girl, in shoes down at heel, and blue worsted stockings very much out of repair.

Hyponyms

• (fine wool fabric): gabardine, serge, tamin, whipcord

Translations

Etymology 2

Participle adjective of the verb worst.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: wûst??d, IPA^(key): /?w??.st?d/
• (US) enPR: wûrst??d, IPA^(key): /?w?.st?d/

Verb

worsted

1. simple past tense and past participle of worst

Adjective

worsted (comparative more worsted, superlative most worsted)

1. Defeated, overcome.

Translations

Anagrams

• Tedrows, strowed, trowsed, wedtros