Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- n. A hauberk.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See haubergeon.
Wiktionary
- n. historical A sleeveless coat of chain mail.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk
Etymologies
- Middle English from Old French hauberjon, from hauberc, hauberk; see hauberk. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I would give the best habergeon I ever wrought, that the difficulty in truth rested with me, for there were then the better chance of its being removed.”
““Jilbáb” either habergeon (mail-coat) or the buff-jacket worn under it.”
“As he was thus, behold, the merchant-woman with whom he had taken refuge came up to him and giving him a habergeon and a helmet, a spear, a sword and a gilded girdle, bade him don them and seat himself on the settle after which she left him, for fear of the troops.”
“The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.”
“And there shall be an hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.”
“And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.”
“I was taught that it might contribute to a reading that if outward appearance reflects inward being, as was the prof's theory of medieval lit clothing a bismotered habergeon might indicate an inward uncleanliness or sinfulness, and that he's on pilgrimage because of it.”
A Verray Parfit, Gentil, (Desperately Poor? Greedy? Penitent?) Knyght
“Then he dressed his shield, and drew out his sword, and Bors smote him so hard that it went through his shield and habergeon on the left shoulder.”
“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.”
“And there shall be a hole in the top of it, in the midst thereof: it shall have a binding of woven work round about the hole of it, as it were the hole of an habergeon, that it be not rent.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘habergeon’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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phrontistery - h
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gone for the most part -geon
on is gone
plungeon, curmudgeon, pigeon, sturgeon, dudgeon, pigwidgeon, widgeon, habergeon, smidgeon, melungeon, gudgeon, chirurgeon and 16 more...
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Tolkien's archaisms
sigaldry, moot, kine, fey, eyot, ghylls, gangrel, glede, ilexes, laved, niggard, league and 44 more...
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The Whiteness of the Whale
Words in Melville's "Moby Dick"
grapnels, spile, pea coffee, farrago, grego, bosky, bombazine, brevet, cenotaph, cupidity, kelson, obliquity and 164 more...
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Field Mass
for the same
fanon, armet, wether, filibuster, shadoof, shabrack, mai, sainfoin, sand-crack, panoply, guerdon, flunky and 233 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
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Marginilia
intertextuality, queer, serendipity, eerie, semiotics, schadenfreude, calliope, logophile, marginalia, reductio ad absurdum, dabble, minutia and 141 more...
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EricMinton's Favorite Words
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comprise, elaborate, crystalline, transient, vitality, radiance, chromatic, smolder, coruscate, coarsen, artisan, plumage and 64 more...
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Military
skunk works, armiger, coistrel, chasseur, bogatyr, vexillum, vivandière, cantiniere, sutler, fantassin, habergeon, cascabel and 65 more...
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staffordcastle's Words
mellifluous, verbivore, rampage, virago, lollygag, neep, alluvial, riparian, zany, bauta, amanuensis, adamantine and 85 more...
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Inkhorn
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Tweets
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chained_bear See also haubergeon, which I apparently knew about some time ago. Oh well, at least I guessed right on freerice.com. May 13, 2008