The gambeson and hacqueton were worn under the armour, partly to relieve its pressure upon the body, partly to afford an additional defence.
The gambeson was a sleeved tunic of stout coarse linen, stuffed with flax and other common material, and sewn longitudinally.
The knight wears the hauberk of chain-mail over a gambeson (seen at the skirt), with chausses of chain-mail.
As the sole armour of the soldier, the gambeson is mentioned both by Wace and Guillaume le Breton.
The ordinary series of body-garments worn by the knight are the Tunic, the Gambeson and the Hauberk.
The Gambeson or Pourpoint, or Gambesiata Lorica, as it is called in a will of the year 1286, frequently appears as forming of itself the coat of fence.
The knight's hawberk is worn over a gambeson of linen, quilted linen or cotton, which lesser men wear with a steel cap for all defence.
Over the hawberk is a garment, perhaps of leather with a dagged skirt-edge, and over this again is a sleeveless gambeson or pourpoint of leather or quilted work, studded and enriched.
The shirts of mail are edged with wide borders, which may or may not represent the under tunic or gambeson showing beneath.
We lost one whom we much regretted, Senhor Joao Lourenço da Cunha, who was struck with a dart that pierced through his plates and his coat of mail and a gambeson stuffed with silk, and his whole body, so that he fell to the ground.
The gambeson appearing below the chausses, but covering the chaussons of mail, forming an extra protection to the knee.
The quilted gambeson appearing below the chausses and drawn over the chaussons, with the additional protection for the knee-cap of an octagonal plate.
The effigy at Ash shows the plate armour, under the surcoat, fashioned in the curious armadillo-like Jazerant or brigandine form, with an upper gambeson under it, as well as the usual second gambeson under the mail.
In the mutilated effigy at Sandwich the thick quilted gambeson is distinctly seen at the knee and wrist underlying the mail, while the fine hauberk of plate overlies it, and the surcoat is worn over all.
Gambeson (or Wambeys), the plain quilted defence which is perhaps the most ancient of all armours and was known to the early Egyptians.
The hem of the hauberk is wavy, and so also is that of the gambeson showing beneath it; this is possibly the only example of the gambeson being visible at this late period.
Under the gambeson or the hauberk or both was worn a tunic reaching nearly to the knees, and as a rule a little longer than the defensive garments.
It is probable that the breastplate was always worn immediately below the surcoat; and there are indications that the haqueton or gambeson was sometimes worn at this period under the hauberk.
Incidentally the skirt of the gambeson is disclosed in this figure, and apparently the edge of some defence of mail worn under the taces.
Either a gambeson or a leather tunic under the jacque completed the equipment.
Beltane; and off came hauberk and quilted gambeson and away skipped Sir Fidelis into the green.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gambeson" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
