brigander

Etymology
From, from ,.

Noun

 * 1) * 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:
 * 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
 * 1) * 1611 (edition of 1632), Speed, Hist. Great Britain, IX, xviii, 915:
 * Harnessed in olde rusty briganders.
 * 1) * [1888, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, page 1102:
 * A soldier wearing a brigander.]
 * 1) * [1888, James Augustus Henry Murray, A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, page 1102:
 * A soldier wearing a brigander.]