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GORGET (O. Fr. gorgete, dim. of gorge, throat)

This article appears in Volume V12, Page 257 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: GOA-GRA
GORGET (O. Fr. gorgete, dim. of gorge, throat) , the name applied after about 148o to the cellar-piece of a suit of
armour
 . It was generally formed of small overlapping rings of
plate
 , and attached either to the
body
 
armour
  or to the armet. It was worn in the 16th and 17th centuries with the half-armour, with the plain
cuirass
 , and even occasionally without any
body
  armour at all. During these times it gradually became a distinctive badge for
officers
 , and as such it survived in several armiesin the form of a small metal
plate
  affixed to the front of the collar of the uniform coatuntil after the Napoleonic wars. In the German army to-day a gorget-plate of this sort is the distinctive mark of military
police
 , while the former officer's gorget is represented in British uniforms by the red patches or tabs worn on the collar by staff
officers
  and by the
white
  patches of the midshipmen in the Royal Navy.


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