Definitions
a long (usually sleeveless) tunic of chain mail formerly worn as defensive armor
Word origin
From Middle English hauberk, from Old French hauberc, from Frankish *halsaberg (“neck-cover”).
Used in a sentence
“Ursula wore that day a hauberk under her gown, and was helmed with a sallet; and because of her armour she rode upon a little horse.”
“The hauberk was to the Norman what the byrnie was to the Saxon, the chief method of bodily defence.”
“The habergeon is the mail in this case, and the hauberk is of plate or splint armour, while the cote-armoure is the surcoat, possibly thickly padded, as in the still-existing surcoat of the Black Prince.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Mail shirt”7 letters
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