gorget

• Annya dismounted from her stolen warhorse and happily stripped off her armor, which had served its purpose; first the leg armor, then the sleeves, gorget, and back-and-breast, leaving her in just her boots and the padded arming doublet, which had legs down to her knees. —  The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 2005
• He wore the half-armor of a light horseman--gorget, cuirass, steel gauntlets, mail sleeves, and plate tassets on his thighs. —  F ;SF; - vol 103 issue 01 - July 2002
• But an instrument in the urethra and bladder is surrounded for at least an inch of its course by the prostate; and thus the knife, gorget, or finger, which, guided by the instrument in the urethra, is intended to cut or dilate the entrance to the bladder for the purpose of allowing the calculus to be removed, cannot do this without also cutting or dilating this prostate gland. —  A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners
• The woman has a curious gorget, similar to some which I have found in ruins near Tusayan, and a belt like those still worn by Pueblo Indians. —  Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744
• He had already laid aside his gorget, and when Sholto was announced, the Earl's ancient retainer, old Landless Jock of Abernethy, was bringing him a cap of soft velvet which he threw on the back of his head with an air of supreme carelessness. —  The Black Douglas

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