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haubergeon.

Noun
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MEANING

A short mail shirt, often with relatively short sleeves.

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  • mail haubergeon
  • wear a haubergeon

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He wore a haubergeon over the padding.
The mail haubergeon ended near his hips.
The curator compared the haubergeon with a longer hauberk.

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haubergeon

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Primary category: fantasy. Forms: Singular haubergeon; plural haubergeons. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.

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