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jesserant

jesserant is the rare form of jazerant.

Meaning of jazerant

Noun

jazerant (countable and uncountable, plural jazerants)

  1. (historical) A coat of defense of Arab origin, made of small plates of metal sewn upon linen or similar, like a brigandine.
    • The jazerant, is according to Du Cange, a sort of military vestment. […] But what was the specific distinction of a jazerant seems at present uncertain.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 15
  2. This kind of armor taken generally.
    • a coat of jazerant

Forms of jesserant

pluraljesserants

Questions about jesserant

What is jesserant the rare form of?
Jesserant is the rare form of jazerant.

Words near jesserant in the dictionary

  1. jessed
  2. Jessee
  3. Jesselton
  4. Jesselyn
  5. jessemin
  6. jesserant
  7. jesserants
  8. jesses
  9. Jessi
  10. Jessica
  11. Jessica Fletcher

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jesserant (page history and authors); jazerant (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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