Where the man has a hood the woman has, as a rule, a head-veil and wimple or gorget. |
Most of it was plate-mail with chain leggings and a chain gorget around her throat. |
The gorget appears to have been cut on the bias and was pulled up to cover the throat. |
The arrow took him through the throat, the armour piercing head passing through the gorget on the swordsman's throat with ease. |
He staggered over to Cecil's form, and seized him up by the back of his gorget. |
With his right hand, he lifted away his iron veil, his crown and mask and gorget, exposing his slender face. |