Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A short, sleeveless coat of mail.
- noun A hauberk.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
haubergeon .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun historical A sleeveless coat of
chain mail .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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“Jilbáb” either habergeon (mail-coat) or the buff-jacket worn under it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
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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.
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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 Heo 2006
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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.
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The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.
chained_bear commented on the word habergeon
See also haubergeon, which I apparently knew about some time ago. Oh well, at least I guessed right on freerice.com.
May 13, 2008