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GORGET

Volume 8 · 63 words · 1797 Edition

a kind of breast-plate like a half moon, with the arms of the prince thereon; worn by the of- ficers of foot. They are to be either gilt or silver, according to the colour of the buttons on the uni- forms.

or GORGERET, in surgery, is the name which the French give to the concave or cannulated conductor, used in lithotomy. See SURGERY.