• (n.) One who wears a tabard. • (n.) A scholar on the foundation of Queen`s College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard.
Tab'ard·er noun 1. One who wears a tabard. 2. A scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, whose original dress was a tabard. Nares. 
A tabarder was the name given to a scholar on the foundation of Queen's College, Oxford, England, so called because their original dress was a tabard.