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GORGE , strictly the French word for the throat considered externally, Hence it is applied in falconry to a hawk's crop,and thus, with the sense of something greedy or ravenous, to food given to a hawk and to the contents of a hawk's crop or stomach. It is from this sense that the expression of a person's " gorge rising at " anything in the sense of loathing or disgust is derived. " Gorge," from analogy
throat ," is used with the meaning of a narrow opening as of a ravine or valley between hills; in fortification, of the neck of an outwork or bastion ; and in architecture, of the narrow part
astragal . From " gorge " also comes a diminutive " gorget," a portion of a woman's costume in the middle ages, being a close form of wimple covering the neck and upper part
body
armour
appearance , comes from the 0. Fr. gorgias
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