How To Use hauberk In A Sentence
- The four knights went back to the mulberry tree in the yard to remove their covering garments, put on their hauberks, and gather their swords.
- Albright borrowed some new equipment from the local blacksmith – no full plate, unfortunately, but an adequate shield and chain hauberk for him, and a crossbow, light sword, and hauberk for Nora. The Kurse of Kain « A Fly in Amber
- The ‘habergeon,’ or hauberk, is a shirt of mail (iron ringlets forged together) commonly worn by medieval warriors.
- By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood.
- The hauberk was a complete covering of double chain mail. The Age of Fable
- [Footnote 1: 'Hauberk:' the hauberk was a texture of steel ringlets or rings interwoven, forming a coat of mail that sat close to the body, and adapted itself to every motion.] [Footnote 2: 'Stout Glo'ster:' Gilbert de Clare, surnamed the Red, Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett With Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes
- By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood.
- And a figure in steel helmet and leather hauberk—faceless behind a bent nose guard, ageless within the armor of war—had delivered the death blow. Earl of Durkness
- He wore a short hauberk over a leather shirt and weather-beaten old leather leggings.
- These days I will more often call a hauberk a mail shirt or a gambeson a quilted tunic. Archaic terminology in historical fiction
