Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Habergeon"
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary (easton)
Habergeon
an Old English word for breastplate. In Job 41:26 (Heb. shiryah)
it is properly a "coat of mail;" the Revised Version has
"pointed shaft." In Ex. 28:32, 39:23, it denotes a military
garment strongly and thickly woven and covered with mail round
the neck and breast. Such linen corselets have been found in
Egypt. The word used in these verses is _tahra_, which is of
Egyptian origin. The Revised Version, however, renders it by
"coat of mail." (See {ARMOUR}.)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Habergeon \Ha*ber"ge*on\, n. [F. haubergeon a small hauberk,
dim. of OF. hauberc, F. haubert. See Hauberk.]
Properly, a short hauberk, but often used loosely for the
hauberk. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
habergeon
n : (medieval) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under
the hauberk
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