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gambesons

n. (plural of gambeson English)

Usage examples of "gambesons".

The two wore gambesons of quilted leather under embroidered surcoats that repeated the devices on the banners, and greaves and vambraces of boiled leather, but no true armor.

Freefighter troops led by Bili and two other thoheeksee was a knot of some score and a half of noblemen, some chatting or monotonously cursing, a few smoking their pipes, most rolling pebbles in dry mouths, their shirts and small clothes one soggy mass under their thick, leathern gambesons and three-quarter suits of Pitzburk.

They had shed their chain-mail hauberks and quilted gambesons, and even their shirtsbare to the waist and seemingly immune to the cold drizzle and icy winds.