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English
Etymology
From Dutch abberdaan, labberdaan, or a French form. Compare Old French habordeau, from the name of a Basque district, and French Labourd, adjective Labourdin. The letter l was misunderstood as the French article l’.
Noun
haberdine (countable and uncountable, plural haberdines)
- cod salted and dried.
c. 1600, John Ayliffe, Satires:Yet can I set my Gallio's dieting,
A pestle of a lark, or plover's wing;
And warn him not to cast his wanton eyne
On grosser bacon, or salt haberdine
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