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- noun Plural form of
gambeson .
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Examples
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They'll be doing gambesons for around the £50 mark in a few weeks.
More on Schielhau zornhau 2005
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Two mail-clad knights followed him, six footsoldiers, in quilted gambesons like Sabin's, and a priest armed with a stout quarterstaff.
The Falcons of Montabard Chadwick, Elizabeth 2004
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Under the armor, they wore padded gambesons, and over it, padded surcoats.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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Under the armor, they wore padded gambesons, and over it, padded surcoats.
Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003
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For these brethren looked what they were, knights of high degree; and considering their great stature, long swords, and the coats of mail they always wore beneath their gambesons, none believed them but plain gentlefolk bent on a pious errand.
The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He thought that you were knights, not simple pilgrims as you avow yourselves, who happen to be dressed and armed like knights beneath your gambesons; and, "she added, fixing her eyes upon the line of white hair on Godwin's head where the sword had struck him in the fray on Death Creek quay,
The Brethren Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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