10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HABERGEON»
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habergeon in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Middle English Dictionary
[OF hauberjon] (a) A coat or jacket of mail or scale armor, often worn under plate
armor; also, a hauberk; mailed~,a habergeon of mail; ~ hoked, a habergeon of
scale armor; (b) fig. a defense, protection; ~ of feith, etc. ; (c) a garment of mail ...
John Reidy, Sherman M. Kuhn, 1966
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The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury ...
(al- bismuferd widh'iz ha"berjuu"n)w ' His doublet of fustian was all soilcd-with
marks made by the habergeon which he had so lately worn over it.' Bismotered
has the same sense as mod. E. besmutted. habergeoun, though etymologically a
...
Geoffrey Chaucer, Walter William Skeat, 1958
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ...
This Dr. Meyrick takes to be the habergeon. Hie helmet of the Conqueror is of
Greco-Roman fashion, conical, with a knob at top, and a rim somewhat
resembling a coronet below, with or without a flap or neck-guard. The principal
weapon of ...
Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington), 1839
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The London encyclopaedia: or, Universal dictionary of ...
Armour to cover the neck and breast; breast-plate; neck-piece; gorget. And over
that an habergeon For percing of his herte. Chaucer. Rime of Sire Thopat. With
him ther wenten knightes many on ; — Some wot ben armed in an habergeon,
And ...
5
Bible English, Chapters on Old and Disused Expressions in ...
In Samson Agonistes the Jewish captive challenging Harapha, bids him put on '
Thy brigandine of brass, thy broad habergeon, Vant-brace and greves.' (1120.) '
Habergeon' is used five times in our Bible. The hole of the ephod was to be ' as it
...
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London encyclopaedia; or, Universal dictionary of science, ...
And over that an habergeon For percing of his herte. Chaucer. Rime of Sire
Thopat. With him ther wenten kuightes many on ; — Some wol ben armed in an
habergeon, And in a brest plate and in a gipon. Id. The Knightes Talc. — She
resolved ...
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A Dictionary of Modern English Usage
habergeon. Pronounce ha'berjn. hahfltmsnts. See Polysyllabic нимоия. hiMBMl
makes habilitable ; see -ABLE 1. , v., has -ittd ; see -T-, -TT-. In some of its
obsolete (relation to, intimacy or familiarity) the word was not exchangeable with
habit.
Henry Watson Fowler, 1994
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Stinchcombe parish magazine [afterw.] The parish magazine ...
Habergeon ' is used four or five times in the Old Testament. The hole of the
ephod was to be as the hole of the habergeon (Exod. xxviii. 32; xxxix. 23).
Nehemiah armed his workmen with habergeons among other things (Neh. iv. 16)
. Latimer ...
9
History of British costume
the breast-plate or plastron, but a plain fustian just- au-corps, and by habergeon,
the plastron or breastplate itself. In the French metrical history of the deposition of
Richard II. (Harleian MS. 1319) Bolingbroke is seen with a breast-plate, worn ...
James Robinson Planché, 1836
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British Costume: A Complete History of the Dress of the ...
the breast-plate or plastron, but a plain fustian just- au-corps, and by habergeon,
the plastron or breastplate itself. In the French metrical history of the deposition of
Richard II. (Harleian MS. 1319) Bolingbroke is seen with a breast-plate, worn ...
James Robinson Planché, 1846
