gorget
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A gorget which protects the throat. 
A gorget (with and without spaulders) which covers the upper chest.
See also: görget
English
Etymology
From Middle English gorget, from Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɡɔːdʒɪt/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɪt/, /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɛt/, /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒət/, /ˌɡoɹˈʒeɪ/
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Noun
gorget (plural gorgets)
- (historical) A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
- Synonyms: neckplate, hausse-col, (less common) gorgerin, (less common) gorgerette
- 1662, [Samuel Butler], “”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC, canto 2:
- About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target
- 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, , and A Constable and Co., , →OCLC:
- Unfix the gorget's iron clasp.
- 1968, Michael Moorcock, The Mad God's Amulet, Gollancz, published 2003, page 209:
- Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget.
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 500:
- Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place.
- (historical) A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
- (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
- Synonym: (less common) gorgerette
- An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
- (surgery) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
- Synonym: (obsolete) gorgeret
- A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
- (zoology) A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
- 1917, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
- There was […] the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage […]
- (UK, dialect, Cornwall) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.
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Translations
armour
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women's clothing
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ornament for the neck
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References
- ^ 1839, Robley Dunglison, “GORGET”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, , 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC:
- “gorget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.