brigandine

[ brig-uhn-deen, -dahyn ]

/ ˈbrɪg ənˌdin, -ˌdaɪn /

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noun Armor.

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

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Origin of brigandine

1425–75; late Middle English brigandyn<Middle French brigandine.See brigand, -ine²

Words nearby brigandine

brigadier, brigadier general, brigading, brigalow, brigand, brigandine, brigantine, Brig. Gen., Briggs, Briggsian logarithm, Brigham

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How to use brigandine in a sentence

Part of a Chinese Brigandine Jacket of cotton, quilted, with enclosed plates of metal.
The Evolution of Culture|Augustus Henry Lane-Fox Pitt-Rivers
The next moment a bullet struck against his brigandine, but without doing him any injury.
Guy Fawkes|William Harrison Ainsworth
A brigandine was a coat of leather or quilted linen, with small iron plates sewed on.
South London|Sir Walter Besant
In the first of Samuel you shall read of Goliah a Philistine, the weight of whose brigandine or shirt of maile was of 5000.
Chronicles (1 of 6): The Description of Britaine|Raphaell Holinshed

There were only foure armed men in this brigandine: these did stand at the brigandines side to defend it.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Volume XIV (of 16)|Richard Hakluyt

British Dictionary definitions for brigandine

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

Word Origin for brigandine

C15: from Old French, from brigand + -ine 1

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