So the Canterbury pilgrims are not simply fourteenth-century Englishmen; they are human types whom Chaucer met at the Tabard Inn, and whom later English writers discover on all of earth's highways.
So with his Tabard Inn, which is a real English inn, and with his Pilgrims, who are real pilgrims; and so with every other scene or character he described.
On an evening in springtime the poet comes to Tabard Inn, in Southwark, and finds it filled with a merry company of men and women bent on a pilgrimage to the shrine of Thomas à Becket in Canterbury.
I understood that this tabard was discovered stowed away somewhere in the church, and that the vicar had it framed and hung up there, and I commend the action of the vicar.
The Tabard was one among many inns from which travellers started on their journeys along the road to Canterbury and to the seaports of the South.
Do not the purlieus of the unromantic Borough High Street, murky as these often are, recall Chaucer's famousTabard Inn, of Canterbury pilgrims' fame?
Chaucer describes nearly every one in the company, and last of all he pictures for us the host of the Tabard Inn.
At the Tabard Inn twenty-nine "of sundry folk," besides Chaucer himself, were gathered.
So one day in April a company of pilgrims gathered at the Tabard Inn on the south side of the Thames, not far from London Bridge.
He is there represented as wearing beneath histabard black breeches and coat, and a golden crown.
They wear a tabard of damask silk, embroidered with the Royal arms, like the heralds, but no collar of SS.
The fifteenth and sixteenth centuries witnessed the greatest profusion in heraldic decoration in brasses, when the tabard and the heraldic mantle were evolved.
This curious method of the wearing of the tabard by a pursuivant has long since been discontinued, if indeed it was ever generally adopted, a point on which I have by no means been able to satisfy myself.
The tabard of a pursuivant is of damask silk; that of a herald, of satin; and that of a king of arms, of velvet.
The costume worn with the tabard has naturally been subject to many changes, but it is doubtful if any attempt to regulate such costume was ever officially made prior to the reign of Queen Victoria.
The official dress of an officer of arms as such in Great Britain is merely his tabard (Figs.
Obviously, however, a tabard requires other clothing to be worn with it.
The one who told the best story should have, on the return of the company to the Tabard inn, a supper at the expense of the rest.
The Tabard owed its origin to the Abbey of Newere Mynstre, Winchester, which was founded by King Alfred, and afterwards removed outside the walls, when it assumed the name of Hyde Abbey, temp.
For all time will the name of Harry Bailly, the jovial landlord of the Tabard towards the end of the fourteenth and beginning of the fifteenth centuries, be remembered.
It was not in consequence of any original scheme that the co-operative stores, the club, or the Tabard Inn were built.
Not far from the site of the Tabard Inn, a picturesque, gabled house once stood, in which John Harvard was born.
Slowly and carefully they wended their way down to London Bridge, crossed, and stopped for a moment before the site of the old Tabard Inn.
It is now known as the 'Talbot,' but the inscription above the doorway contradicts the modern signboard and proclaims the house to be 'The Ancient Tabard Inn.
As late as 1870 the ruins of the famousTabard could be found.
Shake the wet off on the upland road; My tabard has grown a heavy load.
The Sieur Guillaume against me came, His tabard bore three points of flame From a red heart: with little blame, Hah!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tabard" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
