the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. See habergeon.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A short hauberk, reaching only to the middle of the thighs: also used indiscriminately for any coat of linked mail.
Word Usage
"Of weapons there was no lack, and to these they helped themselves in liberal fashion, whilst here and there a man would pause to don a haubergeon or press a steel cap on his head."