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Habergeon

Habergeon \Ha*ber"ge*on\ (h[.a]*b[~e]r"j[-e]*[o^]n or h[a^]b"[~e]r*j[u^]n), n. [F. haubergeon a small hauberk, dim. of OF. hauberc, F. haubert. See Hauberk.] Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
--Chaucer.

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habergeon

n. (context historical English) A sleeveless coat of chain mail.

WordNet
habergeon

n. (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk

Usage examples of "habergeon".

A short sword, a bundle of bolts for a crossbow, a stout leather cap and a chainmail habergeon lay in a bundle on top of a heavy blanket.

He was dressed in the infantry habergeon in which he had insisted on fighting.

There was a habergeon of heavy ring mail tied behind her saddle, though, with her helmet atop it.

His eye gleamed as he bowed to the young queen, her habergeon again lashed behind her saddle, standing demurely clad in a gown that nonetheless should have been classified as a diplomatic weapon.

The walls gleamed pale with knightly harness, habergeons gaping for heads, breastplates of blue steel, halbert, and hand-axe, greaves, glaives, boar-spears, and polished spurfixed heel-pieces.

Clothing racks of hair shirts, habergeons, hauberks and herringbone suits.

A metallic, slithering rasp roared through the underground halls, the sound of a thousand habergeons of chain mail being dragged rapidly across riveted sheet iron.

And as they were issued their dwarf-forged steel breastplates and chain habergeons they had been able to pass their scale and splint armor on to their allies.

Habergeon: A chain-mail shirt Haut-gousts: Tasty things Headborough: A constable Hiccius Doctius: A nonsense word used by jugglers, conjurers etc.

At the tip of the steel wedge Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon.

Conan roared his heathen battle-cry and swung his great sword in glittering arcs that made naught of steel burgonet or mail habergeon.

The walls gleamed pale with knightly harness, habergeons gaping for heads, breastplates of blue steel, halbert, and hand-axe, greaves, glaives, boar-spears, and polished spurfixed heel-pieces.

Clothing racks of hair shirts, habergeons, hauberks and herringbone suits.

The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron as straw.