Definition of "gorgets" [gorgets]

• Plural form of gorget. (noun)

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• "Some officers wore shirts, others stripped like the Indians, their only badges of rank the silver gorgets hanging from their necks."
• "Most males have brilliantly iridescent throat patches (gorgets) which reflect the light in a dazzling display of bright blue, green or red."
• "The hardware is ­extraordinary, but what makes the show remarkable are the portraits of monarchs and ­nobles clad in the exhibition's burgonets, gorgets, pauldrons, vambraces and gauntlets."