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n. - (Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk.

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Usage examples (31)
  • “Jilbáb” either habergeon (mail-coat) or the buff-jacket worn under it.
  • When I reached home Lydia was pinning on her habergeon, her neck-armor of ribbons and lace, before the mirror.
  • And there was a hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.
  • Reck not of sleep: wear the hair-shirt and the habergeon.
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