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gorgerin

[ gawr-jer-in ]

noun

, Architecture.
  1. the neckline portion of a capital of a column, or a feature forming the junction between a shaft and its capital.


gorgerin

/ ˈɡɔːdʒərɪn /

noun

  1. architect another name for necking
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gorgerin1

1655–65; < French, derivative of gorge throat; gorge 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of gorgerin1

C17: from French, from gorge throat; see gorge
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Example Sentences

To the celebrated Bayard are the French indebted for a military proverb, which some of them still repeat, “Ce que le gantelet gagne le gorgerin le mange”—“What the gauntlet gets, the gorget consumes.”

I felt, with my eye, the weight of a two-handed sword, a steel gorgerin, a morion.

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