HABERGEON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habergeon mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABERGEON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("habergeon" 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)

Domain category:

Dark Ages; Middle Ages (the period of history between classical antiquity and the Italian Renaissance)

 Context examples 

I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am; as Job's leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)