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gorget en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɪt/ (US)
  • (Southern-England) audio
  • /ˈɡɔːdʒɪt/ (UK)
  • /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒɛt/ (US)
  • /ˌɡoɹˈʒeɪ/ (US)
  • /ˈɡoɹ.d͡ʒət/ (US)

Etymology

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

Meanings

  1. (historical) A piece of armour protecting the throat and/or the upper part of the chest.
    • I heard he presented Hygd with a gorget, the priceless torque that the prince's daughter Wealhtheow, had given him. 1999, Seamus Heaney, Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page 69:
    • Renly lifted his chin to allow Brienne to fasten his gorget in place. 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 500:
    • About his neck a threefold gorget, / As rough as trebled leathern target 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]. Canto II.”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
    • Unfix the gorget's iron clasp. 1805, Walter Scott, “(please specify the page)”, in The Lay of the Last Minstrel: A Poem, London: […] [James Ballantyne] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], and A[rchibald] Constable and Co., […], →OCLC:
    • Hawkmoon whipped his sword from the scabbard, leaped forward, and drove the blade into the throat of the warrior just below his gorget. 1968, Michael Moorcock, The Mad God's Amulet, Gollancz, published 2003, page 209:
  2. (historical) A crescent-shaped ornamental metal plate suspended around the neck from the crescent's points by a length of chain or ribbon, used to indicate rank or authority and was worn as part of a dress military uniform by officers.
  3. (historical) A type of women's clothing covering the neck and breast; a wimple.
  4. An ornament for the neck; a necklace, ornamental collar, torque etc.
  5. A cutting instrument used in lithotomy.
  6. A grooved instrument used in performing various operations; called also blunt gorget.
  7. A crescent-shaped coloured patch on the neck of a bird or mammal.
    • There was […] the golden-winged woodpecker, with his crimson crest, his broad black gorget, and splendid plumage […] 1917, Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
  8. (Cornwall, UK, dialectal) A hake caught in a net set for other fish.

Forms

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gorgets Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

gorgeted · gorget hummer

Relateds

gorgelet · gorge

Synonyms

gorgerette · gorgeret · neckplate · gorgerette · gorgerin · hausse-col

Translations (40)

de Ringkragen (ornament for the neck) · sv ringkrage (armour) · pt gorjeira (armour) · de Halsberge (armour) · sv harneskkrage (armour) · sv pansarkrage (armour) · ca gola (ornament for the neck) · ca gorgerí (armour) · gmq-osw panzarakraghi (armour) · fr gorgerette (women's clothing) · ko 고지트 (armour) · lt goržetas (armour) · gl gorgueira (armour) · fr gorgerin (armour) · fr hausse-col (armour) · es gorjal (armour) · de Halsberge (ornament for the neck) · it gorgiera (armour) · nn ringkrage (armour) · non hringakragi (armour) · ja 喉当て (armour) · uz горжет (armour) · fr hausse-col (ornament for the neck) · pt gorjal (armour) · gmq-osw ringakraghi (armour) · de Ringkragen (armour) · nb ringkrave (armour) · gmq-osw harniskakraghi (armour) · nb ringkrage (armour) · pl ryngraf (armour) · ca gola (armour) · mt gurgiera (armour) · de Brusttuch (women's clothing) · fi kurkkusuoja (armour) · ru горже́т (armour) · ca gorjal (armour) · fr gorgerin (women's clothing) · uk горже́т (armour) · uz gorjet (armour) · fa طوقه (armour)