▪ I. † ˈbrigander1 Obs.
Forms: 5 bregaunter, -ander, breggandire, brigaunder, 5–6 brygander, -yr, brigander, 6 -inder, bregandier.
[f. brigand, on some obscure analogy: there is no such form in French.]
1. Body-armour for foot-soldiers; = brigandine 1.
| 1420 Test. Ebor. (1836) I. 397 Unum par de bregaunters, cum tota reliqua armatura mea. 1450 John Paston Petit. in Lett. I. 106 A thowsand persones..arrayd in maner of werre, with curesse, brigaunders, jakks, salettes, gleyfes, bowes, etc. 1497 Will of Sympson (Somerset Ho.), Pair briganders, paire leg harneys, a paire of gussettes. 1543 Grafton Contn. Harding 497 The Duke of Buckyngham stoode harnessed in olde euell fauoured bryganders. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xviii. (1632) 915 Harnessed in olde rusty briganders. |
2. A soldier wearing a brigander.
| 1525 Ld. Berners Froiss. II. clix. [clv.] 438 The aragonoys shulde serue hym..with ii. hundred speares at their coste and charge, and a thousande crosbowes, and a thousande bregandiers. |
▪ II. † brigander2
App. corrupt f. brigadier.
| 1647 Haward Crown Rev. 22 Brigander. Fee, {pstlg}10. |
▪ III. brigander
obs. f. bergander, sheldrake.