tabard

A silk banner attached to a bugle or trumpet.

A sleeveless jerkin or loose overgarment.

The long rows of wheat-shocks marched like soldiers in worn yellow tabards.

‘I still cannot believe I actually did that!’ Maureen told me, recalling that time her and the Nanas turned up at former prime minister David Cameron's house in Oxfordshire on a tank Vivienne Westwood lent them, wearing tabards that said ‘The Oven Gloves Are Coming Off’.

A sleeveless garment made of coarse cloth formerly worn outdoors by the common people.

A cape or tunic worn by a knight, emblazoned with the coat of arms of his king or queen on the front.

And thereupon, behold, a knight on a black horse appeared, clothed in jet-black velvet, and with a tabard of black linen about him.

A similar garment officially worn by a herald and emblazoned with his sovereign's coat of arms.

The heralds in their tabards were marvellous to behold, and a nod from Rouge Croix gave me the keenest gratification.

Along the narrow winding path between the great oak trees there rode a dark sallow man in a scarlet tabard who blew so loudly upon a silver trumpet that they heard the clanging call long before they set eyes on him.