How To Use Hauberk In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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The ‘habergeon,’ or hauberk, is a shirt of mail (iron ringlets forged together) commonly worn by medieval warriors.
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By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood.
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The hauberk was a complete covering of double chain mail.
The Age of Fable
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[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
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By the eleventh century the coif was often integrated with the hauberk becoming a hood.
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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
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He wore a short hauberk over a leather shirt and weather-beaten old leather leggings.
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These days I will more often call a hauberk a mail shirt or a gambeson a quilted tunic.
Archaic terminology in historical fiction
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And I, said he, will so do that thou mayst fear me the less; for I will unarm me when the night cometh, and thou thyself shalt keep mine hauberk and sword and anlace.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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He was so clad, that he had no helm on his head, but a little hat with a broad gold piece in the front thereof; he was girt to a long sword, and had an anlace also in his belt, and Birdalone saw the rings of a fine hauberk at his collar and knees; otherwise he was not armed.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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The thighs, which had been protected beneath the mail hauberk by padded, or gambossed, cuisses in the 13th century, received plate cuisses early in the next century.
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The Tapestry shows Norman knights and English soldiers wearing identical mailed hauberks or byrnies.
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And from the said stones she drew forth two very fair armours, helm and hauberk, and leg and arm wards; and they were all of green, and shone but little, but were fashioned as no smith of man-folk could have done the like.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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See Guest, "The Mabinogion".] [Footnote 110: The hauberk was a long shirt of mail reaching to the knees, worn by knights in combat.
Four Arthurian Romances
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They wore a mailed shirt called the 'hauberk', constructed of interlinked iron rings, which afforded protection to the body, upper arms and thighs.
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Then the knight recalls how the other had basely reproached him about the cart; so he assails him and drubs him so soundly that not a string or strap remains unbroken about the neck-band of his hauberk, and he knocks the helmet and ventail from his head.
Four Arthurian Romances
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Usually though, they wear whatever is appropriate for the occasion, hauberk and gambeson, chainmail bikini, leather miniskirt and red top, a big smile...
22 Years Ago
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His arms were folded across his chest and his hauberk rested casually across his shoulder.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
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He wears a cylindrical helm, a hauberk, apparently hooded, a short surcote, and a broad cingulum.
Records of Woodhall Spa and Neighbourhood Historical, Anecdotal, Physiographical, and Archaeological, with Other Matter
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The dark cuirass was worn over a closely linked black chain mail hauberk.
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Half a dozen soldiers in leather and chain mail hauberks and coifs formed a semicircle around them, hands on the swords sheathed at their hips.
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Th 'embroider'd hauberk, through the body, through
La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier
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These days I will more often call a hauberk a mail shirt or a gambeson a quilted tunic.
Archaic terminology in historical fiction
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One false feint to the groin, then up and round in a semi-arc to slice the enemy between helmet and hauberk.
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Tharvello opened his hauberk and pulled out the percher he'd hidden underneath.
Nemesis
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One false feint to the groin, then up and round in a semi-arc to slice the enemy between helmet and hauberk.
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The hauberk and its short-sleeved diminutive - the habergeon - would continue in use, but it is clear that additions to this protection were being acquired by those who could afford them.
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With their muscular frame underneath their dark green colored hauberk, Luidman were one of Aragon's strongest and ever faithful allies.
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Squires were running hither and thither, or aiding their masters to don armor, lacing helm to hauberk, tying the points of ailette, coude, and rondel; buckling cuisse and jambe to thigh and leg.
The Outlaw of Torn
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Mail armor, of which the hauberk is a species, and which derived its name from maille, a French word for MESH, was of two kinds,
The Age of Chivalry
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And if his surcoat was thinner than he might have wished, at least he had the arming doublet under his hauberk and the otter-trimmed cloak his mother's ladies had sewn for him.
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He was a tall, very lean man, smooth faced, and black haired, helmetless and shieldless, but wearing the plated hauberk of the soldier.
The Path of the King
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O Harry! nurse Joanna tells me that they do eat but frozen turnips and salted beef in his dreadful country, and that the queen-mother, Margaret, wears a gambison [R] and hauberk [S] like to a belted knight.
Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
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And I, said he, will so do that thou mayst fear me the less; for I will unarm me when the night cometh, and thou thyself shalt keep mine hauberk and sword and anlace.
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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She puts on his hauberk with its strong meshes, and laces on his ventail.
Four Arthurian Romances
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Though he had left his leather hauberk with his horse's tack and dunked his head in a water barrel, he still felt too uncomfortable to eat much.
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In their allowed pleasures and pastimes, let them wear that spiritual hauberk which is invulnerable to the darts of the wicked; let them steadfastly set their faces against whatever thy word disallows; and, should fiery trial and temptation beset them, enable them, having done all, to stand.
Jacques Bonneval
