1. Synonyms for Brigandine include mail, armor, armour, byrnie, camail, habergeon, hauberk, chain armour, chain mail and coat of mail

2. Chaucer clearly intended his Knight to harbor some definitive personality underneath the "Besmottered habergeon" - and not one word is wasted in his detailed description

3. Brigandine ( Jeremiah 46:4; 51:3), an obsolete English word denoting a scale coat of armour, or habergeon, worn by light-armed "brigands."The Revised Version has "coat of mail." These dictionary topics are from M.G