gardcorps

English

Noun

gardcorps (plural gardcorps)

1. (historical) A kind of robe with large, long sleeves.
   • 1965, Blanche Payne, History of Costume: From the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century, New York: Harper & Row:

     Women also wore the gardcorps combined with the hood as a practical outdoor garment. Women as well as men wore the houppelande (Fig. 221), with the same high collar and exuberant flowing sleeves.

   • (Can we date this quote?), The Medieval Wedding Planner, Lyle MacPherson:

     Male clothing was worn in layers of a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. […] a long sleeveless tunic. When sleeves (and sometimes a hood) were added, the cyclas became a ganache (a cap-sleeved surcoat, usually shown with hood of matching color) or a gardcorps (a long, generous-sleeved travelling robe).

   • 1992, Blanche Payne, Geitel Winakor, Jane Farrell-Beck, The History of Costume: From Ancient Mesopotamia Through the Twentieth Century, Prentice Hall:

     Ganaches, Gardcorps, and Mantles
     Sleeved outer wraps included two major styles in the 1200s : the ganache, whose extended shoulders formed sleeves (Figs. 7-21, 7-24) and the gardcorps, with long, cape-like hanging sleeves ...

   • 2003, Sara Pendergast, Tom Pendergast, Sarah Hermsen, Fashion, Costume, and Culture: Clothing, Headwear, Body Decorations, and Footwear Through the Ages, U·X·L:

     Ganache and Gardcorps
     Ganaches, also spelled garnaches, and gardcorps were overcoats worn by men of all social classes during the Middle Ages (c. 500 - c. 1500).

   • 2015, Dana Chamblee Carpenter, Bohemian Gospel: A Novel (The Bohemian Trilogy), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

     She now untangled the sleeve of the rough gardcorps as she grabbed at the stirrup to pull herself up from the ground. She threw her arm across the horse's back to support her weight and give the blood a chance to return some feeling to ...