How To Use Gorget In A Sentence
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With his right hand, he lifted away his iron veil, his crown and mask and gorget, exposing his slender face.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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We loosened the gorget covering his throat and pulled back his mail.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
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He wears wrapped strands of shell necklace, a white apron, and a beautiful shell gorget on his chest.
Fire The Sky
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The female, scaly-brown in colouring, displays a much less conspicuous off-white gorget.
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The margin has "gorget," a piece of armour for the throat.
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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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
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He then used a pointed instrument called a gorget to cut through the prostate and into the bladder.
A Country of Vast Designs
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A helmet with a visor, so fitted to the gorget or neck-piece, that the head could be turned without exposing the neck.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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It consisted of a globular iron cap, spreading out with a large hollowed projection over the back of the neck, and protected in front by the visor, beaver, and gorget.
Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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He fumbled with the cuirass for a moment before he managed to hook the attachment hooks together, securing the piece of armour around his body, onto which the gorget was tied to protect his neck.
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Both males and females are predominantly black with a glittering, rosy throat patch, or gorget, and emerald wings.
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We define ‘adult’ as any bird that has completed its first annual wing molt and has therefore acquired definitive remiges (some first-year males may still be molting on the gorget and crown).
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This mound proved remarkably rich in large flint implements, and also contained well-made pottery and a peculiar "gorget" of red stone.
A Further Contribution to the Study of the Mortuary Customs of the North American Indians
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Most of it was plate-mail with chain leggings and a chain gorget around her throat.
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His primary output was Indian trade silver, including gorgets, beads, and buckles.
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He sighed a moment, as was visible, in spite of gorget and corslet, and then added,
The Monastery
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Some males also have elegant ornamentation such as bright throat gorgets, crests and elongated tail feathers.
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Amethyst-throated Hummingbird males vocalized mainly from exposed perches as they turned their heads, displaying their brilliant amethyst gorgets.
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Some males also have elegant ornamentation such as bright throat gorgets, crests and elongated tail feathers.
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But even as he was thinking that, her toe hooked behind his right ankle, she heaved, and he went down in the snow to find the tip of her sword pressed firmly against his gorget.
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The close burgonet has a high comb, a peak, a barred, spiked visor and three gorget plates.
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The arrow took him through the throat, the armour piercing head passing through the gorget on the swordsman's throat with ease.
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A little bird about the size of a robin, which looked like a robin, and in fact was a robin, except that whereas our familiar friend has an orange-red breast, this small gentleman was equipped with a beautiful blue bib and gorget.
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The male ring ouzel in front of me was beautiful, like a dusty blackbird with a gorget of white across its breast.
A Year on the Wing
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On her chest rested a whelk-shell gorget carved in the rattlesnake design.
Fire The Sky
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He wore a buff-coat, under which no doubt there would be a shirt of mail; his gorget and wristlets were of polished steel, and his headgear was a steel cap under a cover of peach-coloured velvet.
The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
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The pikeman's head was protected by a high combed morion in the Spanish style, rather than the earlier sallet; he wore a breastplate with attached tassets over his thighs and - if an officer - a gorget to protect his throat.
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Officers were members of the gentry who did not wear a uniform but wore their own fine quality civilian clothes. They might wear a buff coat made of thick leather, with a small armour ‘gorget’ around their throat.
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He staggered over to Cecil's form, and seized him up by the back of his gorget.
