Brewer's: Tabardar

A sizar of Queen's College, Oxford. So called because his gown has tabard sleeves - that is, loose sleeves, terminating a little below the elbow in a point.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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