Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brigander

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: brig-an-der
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of brigandine.

Archaic

Example Sentences

"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"
"The Duke of Buckyngham stoode harnessed in olde euell fauoured bryganders."
"Harnessed in olde rusty briganders."
"A soldier wearing a brigander.]"
"... 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[…]"
"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."

Etymology

From Middle English brigander(s), from brigaunt, bregaund.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Usage

Archaic

Inflected Forms

briganders (plural)

Synonyms

brigandine

Questions

What does brigander mean?: Synonym of brigandine.
Where does brigander come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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