gorget

thumb|250px|upright|The gorget in this 1772 portrait of Colonel George Washington by [[Charles Willson Peale, was worn in the French and Indian War to show his rank as an officer in the Virginia Regiment.]] thumb|Elaborately decorated gilt-brass gorget of , probably Dutch

A gorget ( ; ) is a band of linen that was wrapped around a woman's neck and head in the medieval period or the lower part of a simple chaperon hood. The term later described a steel or leather collar to protect the throat, a set of pieces of plate armour, or a single piece of plate armour hanging from the neck and covering the throat and chest. Later, particularly from the 18th century, the gorget became primarily ornamental, serving as a symbolic accessory on military uniforms (Mainly on officers uniforms), a use which has survived in some armies (see below).