Definitions for Sir Gawain
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| arrayed | dressed / decked out
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| barbican | window in fortress gate through which weapons may fire
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| beardless children | young knights (too young to shave)
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| beheading game | knight matches strike or stroke of another
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| boar hunt | temptation of pride
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| to behove | to satisfy a condition or restriction
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| burg | a fortified town
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| chivalry | characteristics include loyalty, honesty, courtesy
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| comeliest | most handsome
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| countenance | facial expression
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| covenant | contract
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| crabbed | harsh
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| cuisses | thigh armor
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| dais | high main table in a hall
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| dossel | ornamental hanging above dais
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| doublet | silk garment covering armor from neck to a little below the waist
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| doughty | brave
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| ell-yard | 45 inches
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| entreat | implore; beg
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| ere | before
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| feint | apparent aiming at one point when another is the real object of
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| fox hunt | temptation of avarice
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| Felix Brutus | descendent of Aeneas; founded Britain
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| Five joys of Mary | Annunciation, Nativity, Resurrection, Ascension, Assumption
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| Gawain’s Five Virtues | boundless beneficence, brotherly love, pure min, manners,
compassion
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| girdle | scant belt-shaped garment that is less revealing than a loin cloth
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| gorget | armor protection for the neck
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| gramercy | expressing a surprised thanks
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| guile | cunning
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| Guinevere | Arthur’s queen
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| greave | shin armor
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| Green Chapel | Green Knight’s home
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| hart | male deer
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| hauberk | shirt of chain mail armor
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| hind-hunt | temptation of lust
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| joust | competition between two mounted knights using a variety of
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| liege | sovereign
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| mantle | cloak or cape
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| mattins | prayers
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| Michaelmas | feast on first day of fall; September 29th
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| Morgan | mistress of Merlin who knew the knights of the court; instigator
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| pentangle | five pointed Star of Solomon
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| phantasm | a creation of the imagination; fantasy
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| raiment | clothing; garments
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| romance | stories of Arthur, his knights, and his court
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| Romulus | built Rome (according to Plutarch and Livy)
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| sunder | sever
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| troth | oath
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| twain | two
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| welkin | curved vault of the sky
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| wroth | incensed; mad
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