I was gonna look up "tabard", but then I decided to look up "modest".    From Wordnik.com.  [Elayne Boosler: Fur Is Back] Reference

She wore a simple short-sleeved dress, with a kind of tabard that covered most of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

Roger Livesey's voice flapjack saying the word 'tabard'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Word Magazine - Comments] Reference

The tabard was the one craft failure I had.    From Wordnik.com.  [The packing is done...] Reference

He was reminded of the glory of the Herald's tabard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Abide Monsters]

She clasped her hands together in front of her tabard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

The brilliant tabard seemed to flicker before his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Abide Monsters]

The first was a young warrior, clad in a snow-white tabard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

Avalon slipped his hand beneath the stiff front of his tabard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Abide Monsters]

The arms on the tabard, however, settle the question definitely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire] Reference

Ulin gestured toward the knight, sending a spark to the man's tabard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Tempest]

Mine host came forth at the summons, girding him with his tabard. —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ulysses] Reference

St. George, in his in his hand. in his hand. tabard, crown in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference

A tabard, or coat without sleeves, was the sign of the inn; hence its name.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

The white-and-gold tabard of a Lord Captain, Anointed of the Light, suited him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of Chaos]

She pulled a knee-length shirt of mail over her head, followed that with a white tabard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spike]

The tabard was divided into four quarters, each of which bore a different intricate device.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Abide Monsters]

"Your news is late and incomplete," replied a woman in the tabard of the Weaver's Guild crisply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Rising]

A burly knight, his tabard on fire, was charging for the half-ogre, his sword high above his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Tempest]

Donnerblitz, clad in a tabard on which the arms of the Count were blazoned, entered the dining-hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Legend of the Rhine] Reference

It is a XVth century tabard said to have belonged to Charles the Bold, and now in the Musée Historique at.    From Wordnik.com.  [Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving] Reference

Arms, in his Arms, in his Arms, in his tabard, crown tabard, crown tabard, crown in his hand. in his hand. in his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference

Most peculiar of all was the Shepherd, who wore a long white robe with a red triangular tabard and had black-rimmed eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Only Thing That Flows Is the Fountain] Reference

Goldmoon ignored Tas and instead stopped a woman who, to judge by her tabard marked with a red rose, was a Solamnic Knight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons Of A Lost Star]

The burly, sallow-faced fellow in the uniform tabard of a servant of the Council looked down at him with an unreadable face.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference

She wore a long tabard marked with the symbol of the sun and carried a swC5rd in a silver scabbard, girded around her waist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of a Fallen Sun]

Throw my Amt-belt (House ExMisc Still Lives, dammit!) over the tabard and bracers on my arms, I don't think I'll look half bad!.    From Wordnik.com.  [waterdiluted Diary Entry] Reference

Black Sweats (so close to authentic, believe it or not!) and a single T-shirt, followed by scale armor, and a tabard for the heat.    From Wordnik.com.  [waterdiluted Diary Entry] Reference

He was dressed in full plate mail that shone silver in the sunlight and over the armor he wore the tabard of a Knight of the Rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dragons of Chaos]

Here! — drag him to the market place! — slash him with bridle reins and dog whips until the tabard hang about him in tatters! —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quentin Durward] Reference

"It isn't only that," said Nicolette as she removed her tabard, which had tiny finger marks and strawberry jelly smeared all over it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Consultant Care]

In a few moments he was back with a slender man, his black hair streaked with gray, in a tabard of gold and green, Antimides 'colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Triumphant]

Clad in shining plate and long, white tabard, he walked to the front of the gathering atop the stairs, then lowered himself to one knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chosen Of The Gods]

Under his scarlet cloak and tabard, he wore full armor that had seen hard use, and his eyes were far too old to belong to that young face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Storm Breaking]

He didn't have a tabard but he wore a separate linen sleeve tied to hooks on his breastplate; there was a black horsehead at the shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord of the Isles] Reference

He was preceded by Black Rod, Garter King of Arms, girt in an Alice in Wonderland tabard, festooned with harps and other armorial devices.    From Wordnik.com.  [The peerless John Prescott takes his place in House Of Lords] Reference