brigander

plural briganders

1. archaicSynonym of brigandine.

   A soldier wearing a brigander.]

   [1888, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, page 1102

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   Item ij holy water stokke Item A fire skomer i pair of briganders (coats of mail) and a salet (light helmet) A pair of curas (cuirass) ij old bills

   after 1510, "Inventories of … the Church of St. Margaret, 1511, 1572, and 1614-15", quoted in 1900, Westminster (London, England), A Catalogue of Westminster Records Deposited at the Town Hall, Caxton Street, in the Custody of the Vestry of St. Margaret & St. John, page 237

   The Duke of Buckyngham stoode harnessed in olde euell fauoured bryganders.

   1543, C. Harding, Grafton, page 497

   Harnessed in olde rusty briganders.

   1611 (edition of 1632), Speed, Hist. Great Britain, IX, xviii, 915

   ... with their “prickers” and “hoblers” armed in “coats of mail, briganders, palets or roundels, vanbrases, and rerebrases, and using horns and clarions." In this portentous and lively fashion they moved on to the borders[…]

   1906, George Woolliscroft Rhead, Frederick Alfred Rhead, Staffordshire Pots & Potters, page 70

   A brigander - better known as a brigandine - was a closefitting jacket lined with small overlapping plates of iron which were fastened by rivets to their textile covering.

   1978, Martin R. Holmes, Shakespeare and Burbage: The Sound of Shakespeare as Devised to Suit the Voice and Talents of His Principal Player, London: Phillimore

   Synonyms: brigandine