Визначення слова «gorgerin» мовою англійська

noun

1. (architecture) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings.

2. (historical) Synonym of gorget (“armor”).

3. Synonym of gorget (“wimple (clothing); necklace, neck-ornamentation”).

   • 1992, R. W. Lightbown, Victoria and Albert Museum, Mediaeval European Jewellery: With a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria & Albert Publications The gorgerette, or gorgerin, a collar or scarf or fichu whose original purpose had been to protect the neck or the neck and shoulders, was decorated quite early with gold mounts and jewels.