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gorgerette
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Definition & Synonyms
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• Gorget
- (n.) A small ornamental plate, usually crescent-shaped, and of gilded copper, formerly hung around the neck of officers in full uniform in some modern armies.
- (n.) A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of the breast, and forming a part of the double breastplate of the 14th century.
- (n.) A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
- (n.) A ruff worn by women.
- (n.) A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
- (n.) A piece of plate armor covering the same parts and worn over the buff coat in the 17th century, and without other steel armor.
- (n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.
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