MEANING
A defensive garment reinforced with small metal plates attached inside cloth or leather.
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Words that belong together
- riveted brigandine
- wear a brigandine
On the page
Rivets marked the brigandine’s surface.
She wore a brigandine over her tunic.
The display showed the brigandine’s internal plates.
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Word forms
- Base
- brigandine
Usage notes
Primary category: fantasy. Forms: Singular brigandine; plural brigandines. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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