Gorgerin
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings.
- 2 the molding at the top of a column wordnet
- 3 Synonym of gorget (“armor”). historical
"It required each handgonner to wear a sleeved mail shirt, a gorgerin (armour protecting the throat and neck and made of mail or plate), a sallet (a type of helmet), and a breastplate. He also had to carry a dagger and sword."
- 4 Synonym of gorget (“wimple (clothing); necklace, neck-ornamentation”).
"She is almost naked; in the heat of the dance her veils have fallen away and her brocade robes slipped to the floor, so that now she is clad only in wrought metals and translucent gems. A gorgerin grips her waist like a corselet, and like an outsized clasp a wondrous jewel sparkles and flashes in the cleft between her breasts; lower down, a girdle encircles her hips, hiding the upper part of her thighs, […]"
Example
More examples"It required each handgonner to wear a sleeved mail shirt, a gorgerin (armour protecting the throat and neck and made of mail or plate), a sallet (a type of helmet), and a breastplate. He also had to carry a dagger and sword."
Etymology
Borrowed from French gorgerin.
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