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Gorgerin

noun
1.
The molding at the top of a column.  Synonym: necking.






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"Gorgerin" Quotes from Famous Books



... drew my eyes and appealed to my fancy. Rummaging and idling among these, I hastily enjoyed some verses spiritedly thrown off by a poet of the Pleiad. I examined an elegant Masquerade by Watteau. I felt, with my eye, the weight of a two-handed sword, a steel gorgerin, a morion. What a thick helmet! What a ponderous breastplate— Seigneur! A giant's garb? No—the carapace of an insect. The men of those days were cuirassed like beetles; their weakness was within them. To-day, on the contrary, ...
— The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard • Anatole France



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