brigandine

American  

[brig-uhn-deen, -dahyn] / ˈbrɪg ənˌdin, -ˌdaɪn /

noun

Armor.

1. a flexible body armor of overlapping steel plates with an exterior covering of linen, velvet, leather, etc.

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brigandine British  

/ -ˌdaɪn, ˈbrɪɡənˌdiːn /

noun

1. a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather

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Etymology

Origin of brigandine

1425–75; late Middle English brigandyn < Middle French brigandine. See brigand, -ine ²

Example Sentences

Hard face, battered head piece, dinted brigandine, with faded red lion of St. George ramping on a discolored ground, all proclaimed as plainly as words that he was indeed from the land of war.

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

"By my ten finger bones! when I hang bow on nail and change my brigandine for a tunic, I might do worse than take over the dame and her business."

From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir

But Francesco's quilted brigandine had stood the test of steel, and the point of that assassin's dagger glanced harmlessly aside, doing no worse hurt than a rent in the silk surface of the garment.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael

"But not," returned Monteith, "till I have disengaged you from your wet garments, and preserved your arms and brigandine from the rust of this night."

From The Scottish Chiefs by Porter, Jane

Master Barbot—his head covered with an iron morion, his chest protected with a brigandine, and his cutlass and dagger by his side—leaned upon the barrel of his arquebus and smiled complacently upon his invention.

From The Pocket Bible or Christian the Printer A Tale of the Sixteenth Century by Sue, Eug?ne