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Habergeon

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ha⋅ber⋅geon

  [hab-er-juhn, haw-ber-, huh-bur-juhn]
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–noun Armor.
haubergeon.

hau⋅ber⋅geon

  [haw-ber-juhn, hab-er, huh-bur-juhn]
–noun Armor.
1. a short, sleeveless coat of mail.
2. hauberk.
Also, habergeon.
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hab·er·geon   (hāb'ər-jən)   
n.  
  1. A short, sleeveless coat of mail.
  2. A hauberk.

[Middle English from Old French hauberjon, from hauberc, hauberk; see hauberk.]
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Habergeon

Ha*ber"ge*on\, n. [F. haubergeon a small hauberk, dim. of OF. hauberc, F. haubert. See Hauberk.] Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the hauberk. --Chaucer.
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Habergeon

an Old English word for breastplate. In Job 41:26 (Heb. shiryah) it is properly a "coat of mail;" the Revised Version has "pointed shaft." In Ex. 28:32, 39:23, it denotes a military garment strongly and thickly woven and covered with mail round the neck and breast. Such linen corselets have been found in Egypt. The word used in these verses is _tahra_, which is of Egyptian origin. The Revised Version, however, renders it by "coat of mail." (See ARMOUR.)

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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