Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short hauberk, reaching only to the middle of the thighs: also used indiscriminately for any coat of linked mail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
habergeon .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
short hauberk with short or nosleeves . - noun Sometimes used loosely for the hauberk.
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Examples
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A shirt made from mail is a hauberk if knee-length, haubergeon if mid-thigh length, and byrnie if waist-length.
Bath Time: Why Chainmail was invented - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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They found a tall man on a tall, grey horse, whose polished helm shone like silver in the morning sun, and whose haubergeon was almost hidden under a crimson tabard ornamented with the Sforza lion.
Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912
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Of weapons there was no lack, and to these they helped themselves in liberal fashion, whilst here and there a man would pause to don a haubergeon or press a steel cap on his head.
Love-at-Arms Rafael Sabatini 1912
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On looking round he saw, sitting in an arm-chair, the person who had accompanied him in battle, wearing the same haubergeon, the same helmet, the individual white feather that had attracted his attention.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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A leather haubergeon and an iron helmet, in which there was placed a small white feather, plucked from a cock's wing, constituted the armour of this brave seconder of Hume's gallantry.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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Her head reclined on the back of the chair, her arms hung by her side, the edge of her haubergeon was uplifted, and at her white bosom, from which flowed streams of blood, her child sucked the milk of a dead mother.
Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837
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[Footnote: Le haubert et le haubergeon (sorte de haubert plus l間er et moins lourd) 閠oient une sorte de chemise en mailles de fer, laquelle descendoit jusqu’� micuisse.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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En guerre, ils mettent par-dessus le pourpoint un bon haubergeon, un gla鏾n, [Footnote: Gla鏾n ou glachon, sorte d’armure d閒ensive.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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"and threw their darts with such force that they pierced haubergeon and plates through and through."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
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"and threw their darts with such force that they pierced haubergeon and plates through and through."
A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846
chained_bear commented on the word haubergeon
See hauberk. What an awesome word.
November 8, 2007