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Definition of Gorgets
1. gorget [n] - See also: gorget
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorgets
Literary usage of Gorgets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Antiquities of Tennessee and the Adjacent States, and the State of by Gates Phillips Thruston (1897)
"Many of the types from the graves are not unlike the gorgets worn within the
historic period. Some of them are entirely plain; others are etched with ..."
2. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"The gorgets, or pendants of shell, and copper engraved with the human figure,*
... H. Holmes illustrated most of these gorgets, and considered them in an ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1897)
"The gorgets, or pendants of shell, and copper engraved with the human figure,
... Professor WH Holmes illustrated most of these gorgets, and considered them ..."
4. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities in the Museum of the Royal Irish by William Robert Wilde, Royal Irish Academy Museum (1862)
"25, 26. No. 21, the largest and heaviest gold diadem in the Collection; it is
figured and described at p. 22. gorgets, or NECK-COLLARS. ..."
5. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of Gold in the Museum of the by William Robert Wilde (1862)
"It is only within the last few years that any of those ancient gold gorgets have
been discovered ; and as yet the only specimens to be seen in the public ..."
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