BRIGANDINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brigandine mean? 

• BRIGANDINE (noun)
  The noun BRIGANDINE has 1 sense:

1. a medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth

  Familiarity information: BRIGANDINE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIGANDINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A medieval coat of chain mail consisting of metal rings sewn onto leather or cloth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("brigandine" is a kind of...):

chain armor; chain armour; chain mail; mail; ring armor; ring armour; ring mail ((Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings)

 Context examples 

“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.”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was Aylward squatting cross-legged in his shirt, while he scrubbed away at his chain-mail brigandine, whistling loudly the while.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Again, they are mostly poor folk, even the nobles among them, so that there are few who can buy as good a brigandine of chain-mail as that which I am wearing, and it is ill for them to stand up against our own knights, who carry the price of five Scotch farms upon their chest and shoulders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had thrown off his steel cap and his brigandine, and had placed them with his sword, his quiver and his painted long-bow, on the top of his varied heap of plunder in the corner.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A straight sword by his side and a painted long-bow jutting over his shoulder proclaimed his profession, while his scarred brigandine of chain-mail and his dinted steel cap showed that he was no holiday soldier, but one who was even now fresh from the wars.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)