gorgeous

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A few disks have also been found which may have been portions of these gorgets.

From The Bronze Age in Ireland by Coffey, George

Shell gorgets with engraved designs representing the rattlesnake.

From Illustrated Catalogue of a Portion of the Collections Made During the Field Season of 1881 Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1881-82, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1884, pages 427-510 by Holmes, William Henry

There was then a distribution of extra presents, medals, silver gorgets, and amulets, to some of the chiefs and relatives of chiefs whose conduct was particularly approved, or whom it was thought expedient to gratify.

From Sketches in Canada, and rambles among the red men by Jameson, Mrs. (Anna)

In the absence of any better explanation of these objects, I have regarded them as gorgets, or pendants, for personal decoration.

From Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 by Fewkes, Jesse Walter

Besides these, some of them had gorgets of shells hanging round the neck, so as to reach cross the breast.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 13 by Kerr, Robert