GORGERIN Definition & Meaning

gorgerin

[ gawr-jer-in ]

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noun

Architecture.

the neckline portion of a capital of a column, or a feature forming the junction between a shaft and its capital.

gorgerin

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noun

architect another name for necking

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Origin of gorgerin¹

1655–65; < French, derivative of gorge throat; gorge ¹

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of gorgerin¹

C17: from French, from gorge throat; see gorge

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To the celebrated Bayard are the French indebted for a military proverb, which some of them still repeat, “Ce que le gantelet gagne le gorgerin le mange”—“What the gauntlet gets, the gorget consumes.”

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I felt, with my eye, the weight of a two-handed sword, a steel gorgerin, a morion.

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