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Examples
“A shirt made from mail is a hauberk if knee-length, haubergeon if mid-thigh length, and byrnie if waist-length.”
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
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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.”
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“and threw their darts with such force that they pierced haubergeon and plates through and through.”
“En guerre, ils mettent par-dessus le pourpoint un bon haubergeon, un glaçon, [Footnote: Glaçon ou glachon, sorte d'armure défensive.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘haubergeon’.
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Gene Wolfe
Please contribute your favorite words from any of Gene Wolfe’s books to this prize-winning list.
In case you come across words in this list which are too commonplace to fit in, please ...gallipot, roost, badelaire, oblesque, execration, dhole, amschaspand, arctother, chalcedony, penitence, asimi, autarch and 839 more...
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Greek Fire
being items related to mediaeval warfare, arms and armaments.
caltrop, ballista, trebuchet, mangonel, petard, onager, petrary, hurlbat, francisca, crossbow, longbow, flail and 97 more...
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ktrey's wordlist
Words that I like.
Many may be lexicographically impotent due to a lack of citations and definition. Hopefully I'll be able to rectify this eventually.velleity, dispositive, bloviate, bibulous, fungible, concupiscence, avuncular, carnaptious, thrawn, hypocoristic, diegesis, lagniappe and 928 more...
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funny articles of clothing
cravat, cummerbund, ascot, bustle, corset, doublet, hauberk, haubergeon, bolo tie, ruff, chemise, girdle and 19 more...
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Medieval Horse-Related Words Listed b...
Just what it sounds like.
destrier, percheron, courser, rouncey, draught, joust, tournament, knight, squire, charger, lance, men-at-arms and 83 more...
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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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chained_bear See hauberk. What an awesome word. Nov 7, 2007