gorgerin

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings.
  2. Synonym of gorget (“armor”). historical
    — It required each handgonner to wear a sleeved mail shirt, a gorgerin (armour protecting the throat and neck and made of mail or plate), a sallet (a type of helmet), and a breastplate. He also had to carry a dagger and sword.
  3. Synonym of gorget (“wimple (clothing); necklace, neck-ornamentation”).
    — She is almost naked; in the heat of the dance her veils have fallen away and her brocade robes slipped to the floor, so that now she is clad only in wrought metals and translucent gems. A gorgerin grips her waist like a corselet, and like an outsized clasp a wondrous jewel sparkles and flashes in the cleft between her breasts; lower down, a girdle encircles her hips, hiding the upper part of her thighs, […]

词形变化

gorgerins plural

词源

Borrowed from French gorgerin.
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