How To Use gorget In A Sentence
- With his right hand, he lifted away his iron veil, his crown and mask and gorget, exposing his slender face.
- Their gowns or tunics are so immensely long, that the fair dames are obliged to hold them up, to enable them to move; whilst a sweeping train trails after them; and over the head and round the neck is a variety of, or substitute for, the wimple, which is termed a _gorget_. Godey's Lady's Book, Vol. 42, January, 1851
- Many military police forces have adopted distinctive items of dress: the German gorget (hence the nickname ‘chained dogs’), the American white helmet, the British red cap.
- Similar in purpose to the gorget of medieval plate armor, the neckerchief served to deflect arrows, broadswords, and even great axes from slicing through the vulnerable neck of a cowboy.
- Through the telescope, the most noticeable feature was the yellow throat and forehead and broad yellow stripe extending over each eye, contrasting with black cheeks and gorget.
- We loosened the gorget covering his throat and pulled back his mail. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
- He wears wrapped strands of shell necklace, a white apron, and a beautiful shell gorget on his chest. Fire The Sky
- The female, scaly-brown in colouring, displays a much less conspicuous off-white gorget.
- The margin has "gorget," a piece of armour for the throat. Easton's Bible Dictionary
- A gorget is a thing wore about the neck, and it serveth in that place instead of a shield. Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03
