0 a piece of clothing consisting of a back and a front part without sleeves and a hole for the head, sometimes worn to protect the clothes underneath when working
I should have thought that there would have been a fair number of eager toom tabards in that lot.
Is it reason-able any longer to preserve the spectacle of distinguished ladies and gentlemen performing a stately saraband in heraldic tabard or mediaeval dressing-gown?
A surviving garment similar to the medieval tabard is the monastic scapular.
Officers may also be issued with a simple tabard for traffic duties.
Though his memorial brass does not survive, sketches of it do that show him wearing a tabard and crown.
The next layer is the monastic scapular, which is a tabard-like garment worn over the tunic.
Like other officers of arms, a herald would often wear a surcoat, called a tabard, decorated with the coat of arms of his master.
They wear a green or blue tabard, depending on what town they are from.
