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- noun Plural form of
gorget .
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Examples
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Some officers wore shirts, others stripped like the Indians, their only badges of rank the silver gorgets hanging from their necks.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Some officers wore shirts, others stripped like the Indians, their only badges of rank the silver gorgets hanging from their necks.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Some officers wore shirts, others stripped like the Indians, their only badges of rank the silver gorgets hanging from their necks.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Some officers wore shirts, others stripped like the Indians, their only badges of rank the silver gorgets hanging from their necks.
George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011
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Most males have brilliantly iridescent throat patches (gorgets) which reflect the light in a dazzling display of bright blue, green or red.
Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species 2008
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Most males have brilliantly iridescent throat patches (gorgets) which reflect the light in a dazzling display of bright blue, green or red.
Did you know? Mexico is home to more than fifty hummingbird species 2008
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The hardware is extraordinary, but what makes the show remarkable are the portraits of monarchs and nobles clad in the exhibition's burgonets, gorgets, pauldrons, vambraces and gauntlets.
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A plague upon these gorgets of all other pieces of armour! —
Quentin Durward 2008
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Officers wore gorgets, the last remaining evolution of the knights armor.
Archive 2008-01-06 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Officers wore gorgets, the last remaining evolution of the knights armor.
French Regiments of the "Ancien Regime" in the Seven Years War de Brantigny........................ 2008
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