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Part of Speech: imperfect, past participle

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tabard

Part of Speech: noun

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1. A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds.

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The old " Tabard," from which Chaucer's pilgrims started on their memorable journey, was destroyed by a great fire in 1676, rebuilt in the old fashion, and continued until 1875, when it had to make way for a modern " old Tabard" and some hop merchant's offices. - "Vanishing England", P. H. Ditchfield.
About two in the afternoon I came to Southwark, a town that to me seemed as big as Hastings before it was burned, where was a fine inn called the Tabard at which I stopped to bait my horses and to take a bite and drink of ale. - "The Virgin of the Sun", H. R. Haggard.
Bread Street would resound to us with the tread of young Milton, and Southwark with the echoes of Shakespeare's voice and the jolly laughter of the Pilgrims at the Tabard. - "Pebbles on the Shore", Alpha of the Plough (Alfred George Gardiner).

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