haubergeon

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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 Three sentries only had been left to guard the tents, and of these Fortemani and a couple of his men had made prisoners whilst the others were removing the bridge by which the invaders had entered.

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  1. noun Variant of habergeon.

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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 Three sentries only had been left to guard the tents, and of these Fortemani and a couple of his men had made prisoners whilst the others were removing the bridge by which the invaders had entered. —  Love-at-Arms
  • Sirs, will you attend me to the ramparts They bowed, and followed her, Gonzaga coming last, his tread heavy as a drunkard's, his face white to the lips in the bitter rage with which he saw himself superseded, and read his answer to the hot words that last night he had whispered in Valentina's ear As they crossed the courtyard Francesco discharged the first act of his new office in ordering a half-dozen men-at-arms to fall in behind them, to the end that they might make some show upon the wall when they came to parley with the herald 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. —  Love-at-Arms
  • 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. —  Love-at-Arms
  • 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. —  Love-at-Arms
  • "and threw their darts with such force that they pierced haubergeon and plates through and through." —  A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1
 

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  1. Also haubergion, habergeon, early modern English also haberjeon, haberjon; from Middle English hauberjoun, hauberjon, haberjoun, habergeoun, etc., from Old French haubergeon, hauberjon, etc., properly diminutive of hauberc, a hauberk: see hauberk.
 

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