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

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

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

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

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]

"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]

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]

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

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]