Gambison

A little chilly perhaps, but the gambison is nice and warm. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

This time will see me with a sturdy gambison under the old, grey priestess robe and a fine new weapon to bash things with. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

I have ordered that gambison I was so crazy about and now I'm fretting about what to do with my hair. ❋ Nathreee (2010)

The mail was of finest rings of steel sewn upon soft doeskin, fitted so closely that there was no room for gambison or jerkin; and though it might have stopped a broad arrow or turned the edge of a blade, a sharp dagger could have made a wound beneath it, and against a blow it afforded less protection than a woollen cloak. ❋ Unknown (1881)

And I, with a helmet on my head and a gambison but half buckled upon my body, and my hands bare, was fighting with a full-armed Frenchman and was hard pressed. ❋ Unknown (1881)

Then Buondelmonte thrust out straight and sure, in the Italian fashion, and once the mortal wound was in the face, and once in the throat, and many times men felt it in their breasts through mail and gambison and bone. ❋ Unknown (1881)

O Harry! nurse Joanna tells me that they do eat but frozen turnips and salted beef in his dreadful country, and that the queen-mother, Margaret, wears a gambison [R] and hauberk [S] like to a belted knight. " ❋ Elbridge Streeter Brooks (1874)