Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Flexible body armor of small metal plates or rings, often covered with cloth.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A medieval coat of fence made of linen or leather upon which overlapping scales of steel were sewed. The plates of steel were generally quilted between two thicknesses of stuff. The brigandine was especially the armor of the infantry soldier, but was sometimes combined with plate-armor even in costly suits.
- n. A foot-soldier wearing a brigandine; a brigand.
- Made like a brigandine; of the nature of a brigandine: as, a brigandine garment.
- n. An old form of brigantine.
Wiktionary
- n. historical A coat of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewn to linen or other material.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth
Etymologies
- From Old French brigandine, from brigand + -ine. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old French, armor for a skirmisher, from brigand, skirmisher; see brigand. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“But not," returned Monteith, "till I have disengaged you from your wet garments, and preserved your arms and brigandine from the rust of this night.”
“His clothing -- an olive-colored tunic, fawn breeches that tucked into calf-high leather boots, and skirted, scaled brigandine armor -- was expensive and immaculate.”
“He had finished adjusting and cleaning the hauberk and brigandine, and was now busily employed on a broad pavesse, or buckler, of unusual size, and covered with steel-plating, which Richard often used in reconnoitring, or actually storming fortified places, as a more effectual protection against missile weapons than the narrow triangular shield used on horseback.”
“On his upper body he wore a long brigandine for armor, constructed from small metal plates riveted to a textile covering, for his build was too deformed for the fitted protection worn by his allies.”
“* One suit of Kydex -- plastic -- brigandine for chest and back 10-15 lbs”
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“The same day that part of the host came to the sayd place, the reuerend lord great master ordeined a great brigandine to send into the West, to certifie our holy father the pope, and the Christian princes how the Turks army was afore Rhodes.”
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“Against him that bendeth let the archer bend his bow, and against him that lifteth himself up in his brigandine: and spare ye not her young men; destroy ye utterly all her host.”
“Her clothing was patently that of a fighting mercenary; plain brown leathers and brigandine armor.”
“He still dressed, by preference, in the same boiled-leather armor and homespun he'd always worn, though he could more than afford the kind of expensive riveted brigandine and doeskin Idra and Tarma had chosen.”
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Gene Wolfe
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Historical Costume Box
This is just sort of my "unsorted pit" of costumes to be organized later. It's a really broad topic, so right now, anything goes! Thanks for the contributions!
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A Song of Ice and Fire
Vocabulary from the epic fantasy series by George R. R. Martin!
destrier, wroth, garron, portcullis, craven, lickspittle, palfrey, ermine, surcoat, brigandine, doublet, deign and 7 more...
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rememberers
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the armourer
Armour and weapons, and the occasional soldier.
gauntlet, vambrace, ballista, arbalest, trebuchet, sabre, epee, foil, flamberge, katana, dagger, switchblade and 80 more...
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Battle and War
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