GORGET

Gorget

A gorget, from the French gorge meaning throat, was originally a band of linen wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period, or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term subsequently described a steel or leather collar designed to protect the throat, a set of pieces of plate armour, or a single piece of plate armour hanging from the neck and covering the throat and chest. Later, particularly from the 18th century onwards, the gorget became primarily ornamental, serving only as a symbolic accessory on military uniforms, a use which has survived to the modern day in some armies.

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gorget

Noun

  1. A piece of armour for the throat.
  2. A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
  3. An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
  4. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  5. A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
  6. A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.


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