habergeon

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk

From Middle English hauberjoun, from Old French hauberjon, haubergeon, from Early Medieval Latin (h)alsbergum.

Some will be armed in an habergeon, And in a breast-plate, and in a gipon*; *short doublet. — The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems, Geoffrey Chaucer
The walls gleamed pale with knightly harness, habergeons gaping for heads, breastplates of blue steel, halbert, and hand-axe, greaves, glaives, boar-spears, and polished spur-fixed heel-pieces. — Complete Short Works of George Meredith, George Meredith
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold, the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon: he esteemeth iron as straw; the arrow cannot make him flee; darts are counted as stubble; he laugheth at the shaking of a spear!” This the creature? this he? — Moby Dick; Or, The Whale, Herman Melville

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