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tabard

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Searchable Lemmata: tabard (AF), tabard (ME), tabardum (L), tabwrdd (W), tabart (OScots), tabard (MdE).
Alternate Forms: tabarda, tabarde, tabardus, tabars, tabarum, tabbard, tabbarde, taberd, taberda, taberde, taberdum, tabertum, talbartum, thabard.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Garment; overgarment; usually, a long, basic garment open at both sides and most often sleeveless. Also a sleeveless academic overgarment.(ante 1300 still in current use)
1. coopertoria: covertures, couvrelit ... [137.59] ... renones: tabars Gloss. [AND TLL (ii 137) ante 1300]
2. A Lour lyg[e seg]nur le Rey monstrent les enfants de garde ke honi lour ad sustret de lour lyverees, ceo est a saver ... par la ou eus soleyent prendre tabar e surcote de este ; tut lour est sustret, E une partye de la chaundelrye ; lour est sustret ... Legal. Transcribed by Mark Chambers [LexP NA [PRO] SC 8/196/9797 (ll. 1-14) circa 1275/1300]
3. Item, j taberd et j tunica, precii xij d Accounts. [MED Invent.Labbe in Archaeol.J.3 (66) ante 1300]
4. [41.10] ... Vc [ho]mes en cotes et mantels de verte ... ; ... ils furent ... foresters ... et ceo fuist lour custome checun jour d’estre issint arrayés ... [41.18] ... (the captive king of France) fuist vestu en un tabard de drape de colour come un auncien chaplayn Heroic. [AND Anon Chr (41.10-18) 1382/1399]
5. They gooþ, fi3teþ ... liggeþ, and slepeþ ... Wiþ gipoun, tabard, cloke, and belle Wiþ gipoun, tabard, cloke, and belle ... Wiþ oute hodes, hatte, or cappes, Thus arraied gooþ þe gigges [read: geggis] Historic. (citations from individual page of text may not appear in original order) [MED Trev.Higd. ((StJ-C H.1) 1.403) ante 1387]
6. He had no gude lefte bod a skrip and a taberd & his vvermest clothe to hyll hym with [MED Alph.Tales ((Add 25719) 139/17) circa 1450]
7. Whan it was ondo, þei founde a grete tabard of wrecchid cloth, and al ful of fresch blood Historic. [MED Capgr.Chron. ((Cmb Gg.4.12) 140/6) ante 1464]
c.f.: reno, linteamen
ME; Primarily N/A.
Sex: Male    Use: n/a    Status: n/a    Rank: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:
1b(n.) Garment; surcoat; sleeveless or short-sleeved overgarment, usually worn over the armour, usually displaying armorial bearings or blazon.(ante 1475 still in current use)
1. Here xal annas shewyn hym-self ... after a busshop of þe hoold lawe in a skarlet gowne, and ouer þat a blew tabbard furryd with whyte Drama. (MS dating uncertain) [MED Ludus C. ((Vsp D.8) p.230) ante 1475]
2. A thredbare tabard ... An old hoode revyn wyth jagges He on his armore caste Heroic, Romance. [MED Ipom.(1) ((Chet 8009) 6572) ante 1500]
ME.
Sex: Male    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts:

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French and Medieval L.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
Etym Cog:
References:

    Art and Illustration:

Scott, M. (2007)a discusses the description of 'tabar' presented by John of Garland as a 'mantle that reached only as far down as the kidneys' and the garment's prohibition at court, p. 72.
References: Scott, M. (2007)
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