brigander

noun

1. (archaic)Synonym of brigandine.

   “Item ij holy water stokke Item A fire skomer i pair of briganders (coats of mail) and a salet (light helmet) A pair of curas (cuirass) ij old bills”

   “The Duke of Buckyngham stoode harnessed in olde euell fauoured bryganders.”

   “Harnessed in olde rusty briganders.”

   “A soldier wearing a brigander.]”

   “... with their “prickers” and “hoblers” armed in “coats of mail, briganders, palets or roundels, vanbrases, and rerebrases, and using horns and clarions." In this portentous and lively fashion they moved on to the borders[…]”