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{{Short description|Type of body armor worn around the neck}} {{for|the feathers|gorget (bird)}} {{more citations needed|date=December 2012}} [[File:Washington 1772.jpg|thumb|250px|upright|The gorget in this 1772 portrait of Colonel [[George Washington]] by [[Charles Willson Peale]], was worn in the [[French and Indian War]] to show his rank as an [[Officer (armed forces)|officer]] in the [[Virginia Regiment]].<ref name="Mount">{{cite book |series=Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary |title=Mount Vernon and its Associations: Historical, Biographical and Pictorial |last=Lossing |first=Benson John |author-link=Benson John Lossing |year=1859 |publisher=W.A. Townsend and Company |page=345 |oclc=9269788}}</ref>]] [[File:Gorget MET DP-12881-024.jpg|thumb|Elaborately decorated gilt-brass gorget of {{circa|1630}}, probably Dutch]] A '''gorget''' ({{IPAc-en|Λ|Ι‘|ΙΛr|dΚ|α΅»|t}} {{respell|GOR|jit}}; {{etymology|fro|{{wikt-lang|fro|gorge}}|[[throat]]}}) was a band of [[linen]] wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the [[English medieval clothing|medieval period]] or the lower part of a simple [[chaperon (headgear)|chaperon]] hood.<ref>{{cite book|last=Norris|first=Herbert|title=Medieval costume and fashion|year=1999|publisher=Dover Publications|location=Mineola, N.Y.|isbn=9780486404868|pages=[https://archive.org/details/medievalcostumef00norr/page/181 181]|url=https://archive.org/details/medievalcostumef00norr|url-access=registration}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Lewandowski|first=Elizabeth J.|title=The complete costume dictionary|date=24 October 2011|publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc.|location=Lanham, Md.|isbn=9780810877856|pages=123|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbIsJ2tZJS4C&pg=PA123}}</ref> The term later described a [[steel]] or [[leather]] [[Collar (clothing)|collar]] to protect the [[throat]], a set of pieces of [[plate armour]], or a single piece of plate armour hanging from the neck and covering the throat and chest. Later, particularly from the 18th century, the gorget became primarily ornamental, serving as a symbolic accessory on military uniforms, a use which has survived in some armies (see below). The term may also be used for other things such as items of jewellery worn around the throat region in several societies, for example wide thin gold collars found in [[prehistoric Ireland]] dating to the [[Bronze Age]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gleeson |first1=Dermot F. |title=Discovery of Gold Gorget at Burren, Co. Clare |journal=The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland |date=1934 |volume=4 |issue=1 |pages=138β139 |jstor=25513720 }}</ref> [[File:Gleninsheen gold gorget.jpg|thumb|The [[Gleninsheen gorget|Gleninsheen gold gorget]], [[Prehistoric Ireland|Irish Bronze Age]], [[National Museum of Ireland]]<ref>Cahill, Mary. "Before the Celts: treasures in gold and bronze". In:[[Raghnall Γ Floinn|Γ Floinn, Raghnal]]; Wallace, Patrick (eds), ''Treasures of the National Museum of Ireland: Irish Antiquities''. National Museum of Ireland, 2002. p. 100. {{isbn|978-0-7171-2829-7}}</ref>]]
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