Gorget Small 282×320 Medium 564×640 Large 902×1024 Download Tiff Original 2114×2400 | (764.0 KB) Description "2, Hausse-col (a) worn over mail, early 15th century. GORGET. A piece of armor protecting the throat and sometimes the upper part of the breast." -Whitney, 1911 Keywords 15th century, armor, brigandline, costume, gorget, hausse-col, mail Galleries Armor Source: William Dwight Whitney The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language (New York, NY: The Century Co., 1911) Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman
