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  • noun Plural form of brigandine.

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Examples

  • He passed through the lines of the pikemen, and the giants in their steel caps and mail brigandines shrank back fearfully, lest they so much as touch the skirts of his robe.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • They haue also armed horses with their shoulders and breasts defenced, they haue helmets and brigandines.

    The long and wonderful voyage of Frier Iohn de Plano Carpini 2004

  • Bands of Bossonians were seen moving along the edges of the marches: stocky, resolute men in brigandines and steel caps, with longbows in their hands.

    The Bloody Crown Of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • He passed through the lines of the pikemen, and the giants in their steel caps and mail brigandines shrank back fearfully, lest they so much as touch the skirts of his robe.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Bands of Bossonians were seen moving along the edges of the marches: stocky, resolute men in brigandines and steel caps, with longbows in their hands.

    The Bloody Crown of Conan Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • They haue also armed horses with their shoulders and breasts defenced, they haue helmets and brigandines.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • He passed through the lines of the pikemen, and the giants in their steel caps and mail brigandines shrank back fearfully, lest they so much as touch the skirts of his robe.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Harness the horses; and get up, ye horsemen, and stand forth with your helmets; furbish the spears, and put on the brigandines.

    Jeremiah 46. 1999

  • Bands of Bossonians were seen moving along the edges of the marches: stocky, resolute men in brigandines and steel caps, with longbows in their hands.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • He passed through the lines of the pikemen, and the giants in their steel caps and mail brigandines shrank back fearfully, lest they so much as touch the skirts of his robe.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

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