Citations:gorgerette


 * 1838, John Sell Cotman, Engravings of Sepulchral Brasses in Norfolk Tending to Illustrate the Ercclesiastical, Military, and Civil Costume as Well as to Preserve Memorials of Ancient Families in that County
 * The skull-cap worn with a gorgerette of mail is very singular with this style of armour, giving to the head a more ancient appearance than the rest. S.R.M. + This form of armour with its placcate on the breast, round toes to the sollerets ...
 * 1853, British Archaeological Association, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, page 358:
 * ... and at a later period we find gorgerettes of chain-mail attached to the helmet in a similar way to the more ancient camail; and in the reign of Henry VIII sleeves and appendages to the culettes of this material occur; and skirts ...
 * 1913, The Women's and Infants Furnisher: The Journal of the American Dress Auxiliary Trades, page 22:
 * and the Corset-Ceinture of tricot, sparsely boned and completed by a gorgerette of mull and lace, which helps to support the bust without constricting the natural figure lines.
 * 1914, The Nineteenth Century and After, page 601:
 * Three hundred young men of the high bourgeoisie formed themselves at that time into a band under to defend the Catholic Faith and serve the prince; and an old fellow of the town, struck by their white gorgerettes and sombrecoloured ...
 * 1980, Margaret Scott, Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500, London ; Toronto : Mills & Boon ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J. : Humanities Press
 * ... and to protect the skin against sunburn and darkening of colour: the fine gorgerettes of his youth must have fulfilled the former requirement, while the dark ones here must have fulfilled the latter. In modern French brassières ...