GABERDINE or GABARDINE, any long, loose over garment, reaching to the feet and girt round the waist. It was commonly worn in the middle ages by pilgrims, beggars and alms men. The Jews, conservatively attached to the loose and flowing garments of the East, continued to wear the long upper garment to which the name "gaberdine" could be applied, long after it had ceased to be worn by Gentiles.