1A sleeveless jerkin consisting only of front and back pieces with a hole for the head.
‘the caretaker with her pale blue nylon tabard on’
‘riders wear the same numbered tabard for each event’
‘He was wearing boots, blue trousers and a distinctive fluorescent sleeveless tabard.’
‘We tried wearing colourful tabards and polo shirts but no one wanted to go the full way and move into these ‘child friendly’ outfits.’
‘He was wearing a dark coloured bobble hat and a dark jacket with a fluorescent yellow sleeveless tabard over the top.’
‘‘Excuse me,’ I asked a woman in a blue tabard who was carrying two plastic bags and looking as if her life really wasn't worth living.’
‘It provides employment, training and development opportunities for people with disabilities and produces high quality sewn products such as newspaper bags, tabards and waistcoats.’
‘Much support is on offer from the Local Authority in the form of bags, gloves, tabards, litter pickers and disposal.’
‘The men, wearing high-visibility orange jackets or tabards, are reported to have been seen on the track at about 8.25 on the morning of the derailment.’
‘They were shown how to make colourful outfits, tabards, headbands and banners using brightly coloured silks that they painted.’
‘Wear a fluorescent hatband and either waistcoat or tabard.’
‘Ellen pulled her watch out of the belt pouch she wore under the tabard and checked the time.’
‘Wearing smart new tabards, nine children used this week's ‘walking bus’, which meant six fewer cars queuing outside the school gates.’
‘Maybe the youths see the reflective tabards the street cleaners are wearing and move on.’
‘An elderly woman in a tabard appeared from one of the blocks.’
‘He was wearing a distinctive yellow tabard, a yellow hard hat and blue jeans.’
‘I get worried because the steward in his fluorescent green tabard looks worried - its obvious he's going to end up putting his hand on her and he doesn't want to do this.’
‘The teams, dressed in brightly coloured tabards, have become a common feature on the streets of Scotland's cities.’
‘We might need a couple of people in reflective tabards for crossing the road and I have these in my car.’
1.1historical A coarse sleeveless garment worn as the outer dress of medieval peasants and clerics, or worn as a surcoat over armor.
‘white tabards with crosses on the front’
‘His ceremonial dress included a splendid tabard, bearing the royal coat of arms, along with a sword, black leggings and buckled shoes.’
‘The tabard was sleeveless, showing the white long sleeved shirt that the person wore under it, the end of which tucked away underneath simple iron gauntlets.’
‘Shoppers flocked from far and wide to enjoy the medieval atmosphere, and shop staff and stallholders got into the spirit of the event by donning crested tabards.’
‘Riding to meet them, the tired warriors recognised the device of the silver crown on the stranger's tabards: these were some of Abbot Tathal's men.’
‘A light mace hung at his belt, a sword hilt showed at his left shoulder, and he wore chain mail under a green tabard.’
1.2A herald's official coat emblazoned with the arms of the sovereign.
Origin
Middle English from Old French tabart, of unknown origin.
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