gorget

UK/ˈɡɔːdʒɪt/US/ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɪt/

nounC2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechToo rare in one of the two pools to compare — fewer than 20 uses in speech or in writing

Other forms: gorgets

A gorget is a piece of armour protecting the throat. Wear a gorget.

The throat was the gap between the helmet and the breastplate, which is why it needed one. A gorget survived into the eighteenth century as a small metal badge of an officer on duty.

Definitions of gorget

1noungorgetA piece of armour protecting the throat.C2
“The gorget in the case was the only piece that fitted anybody.”

gorget is armour.

Where it comes from

Old French gorgete comes from gorge, the throat.

Old French
gorgete
Middle English
gorget
English, today
gorget

Built from

gorge · Old French — throat

From Middle English gorget, from Old French gorgete, from gorge (“throat”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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gorget in the wild

Early in the fifteenth century, the camail began to be replaced by a plate metal gorget, giving rise to the so-called "great bascinet".
Bascinet
A gorget ( GOR-jit) is a patch of colored feathers found on the throat or upper breast of some species of birds.
Gorget (bird)
The term is derived from the gorget used in military armor to protect the throat (which is called gorge in French).
Gorget (bird)
Shell gorgets are a Native American art form of polished, carved shell pendants worn around the neck.
Shell gorget
The gorgets are frequently engraved, and are sometimes highlighted with pigments, or fenestrated (pierced with openings).
Shell gorget

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Related words

the gorge family

gorge

gorget — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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