单词 | gambeson |
释义 | gambesonn. Now historical and in historical contexts. A padded jacket or tunic, covering the trunk and thighs, and worn under, or occasionally over, mail or plate armour.The gambeson was made from linen, or sometimes silk, padded with wool, cotton or other soft material, and quilted. It was also sometimes worn alone as an alternative to mail or plate armour. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > stuffed jacket gambeson1306 pourpointa1325 campesonc1325 acton1328 stuffc1330 haquetona1400 quilta1425 trussing-coat1493 wambais1761 1306 in A. H. Thomas Cal. Early Mayor's Court Rolls (1924) 245 (MED) [One] gambeson, [one] aketoun, [one] corset, [and one] banere. c1330 (?a1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) p. 474 (MED) Þe scharp swerd doun gan glide Fast bi sir Gyes side..Þat gambisoun & iambler Boþe it karf atvo y-fere. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) l. 5142 Armen hem in breny of yse, Wiþouten..aketoun, Oiþer plate oiþer gaumbisoun. c1475 (a1400) Awntyrs Arthure (Taylor) in J. Robson Three Early Eng. Metrical Romances (1842) 15 (MED) His gloues and his gamesuns [c1440 Thornton gambesouns] gloet as the gledes. a1500 Sir Degrevant (Cambr.) (1949) l. 320 (MED) Gomes wyth gambisoun Lyes opon bent broun, And sterff vnder stede. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum Gambezon. 1773 F. Grose Antiq. Eng.& Wales I. Pref. 29 The armour of a man at arms..consisted of..a loose garment stuffed with cotton or wool, called a gambeson, over which was worn a coat of mail. 1835 H. W. Longfellow Outre-mer II. 20 A band of Moorish knights gayly arrayed in gambesons of crimson silk. 1843 G. P. R. James Forest Days II. xi. 222 I will pink you him to the quick, if his skin be as thick and hard as a German gambesoon. 1870 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (S. Kensington Mus.) Introd. p. xliii. Many a rich gambeson garnished with silk, cadas, and cotton. 1915 J. Farnol Beltane Smith xli. 327 Off came hauberk and quilted gambeson and away skipped Sir Fidelis into the green. 1986 S. Penman Here be Dragons (1991) (U.K. ed.) i. v. 75 Edwin shivered each time the wind caught his gambeson. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1306 |
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