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brigandine
[ brig-uhn-deen, -dahyn ]
noun
- a flexible body armor of overlapping steel plates with an exterior covering of linen, velvet, leather, etc.
brigandine
/ ˈbrɪɡənˌdiːn; -ˌdaɪn /
noun
- 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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Origin of brigandine1
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Example Sentences
Part of a Chinese Brigandine Jacket of cotton, quilted, with enclosed plates of metal.
The next moment a bullet struck against his brigandine, but without doing him any injury.
A brigandine was a coat of leather or quilted linen, with small iron plates sewed on.
In the first of Samuel you shall read of Goliah a Philistine, the weight of whose brigandine or shirt of maile was of 5000.
There were only foure armed men in this brigandine: these did stand at the brigandines side to defend it.
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