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Brigandine  n.  (Written also brigantine)  A coast of armor for the body, consisting of scales or plates, sometimes overlapping each other, generally of metal, and sewed to linen or other material. It was worn in the Middle Ages. "Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy helmet, And brigandine of brass."






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"Brigandine" Quotes from Famous Books



... a light cuirass protecting the front of the body; brigantine, a jacket quilted with iron (also spelt 'brigandine'); gorget, a metal covering for the throat; mace, a heavy club, plain or spiked, designed ...
— Marmion • Sir Walter Scott

... Faith to circumvent me. Therefore without feign'd shifts let be assign'd Some narrow place enclos'd, where sight may give thee. Or rather flight, no great advantage on me; Then put on all thy gorgeous arms, thy Helmet And Brigandine of brass, thy broad Habergeon. 1120 Vant-brass and Greves, and Gauntlet, add thy Spear A Weavers beam, and seven-times-folded shield. I only with an Oak'n staff will meet thee, And raise such out-cries on thy clatter'd Iron, Which long shall not with-hold mee from thy ...
— The Poetical Works of John Milton • John Milton



Words linked to "Brigandine" :   mail, ring armour, ring armor, ring mail



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