MEANING
A loose, sleeveless outer garment, often open at the sides, associated with medieval dress and heralds.
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Words that belong together
- herald’s tabard
- embroidered tabard
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The herald wore an embroidered tabard.
A tabard displayed the household’s arms.
She pulled the tabard over her working clothes.
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Word forms
- Base
- tabard
Usage notes
Primary category: fantasy. Forms: Singular tabard; plural tabards. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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