goedendag
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Etymology
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Noun
goedendag (plural goedendags)
- (historical) A club with a spike on top, used as a weapon by the militias of medieval Flanders.
- 2002, J. F. Verbruggen, The Battle of the Golden Spurs (Courtrai, 11 July 1302): A Contribution to the History of Flanders' War of Liberation, 1297-1305, Boydell & Brewer, →ISBN, page 203:
- In the centre of the depiction there is a soldier with a goedendag. To the far right the bearer of the wine carriers' banner can be seen armed with a special sword that is very wide and ends in a sharp point, a falchion.
- 2010, Jan Piet Puype, Harm Stevens, Arms and Armour of Knights and Landsknechts in the Netherlands Army Museum, Eburon Uitgeverij B.V., →ISBN, page 245:
- […] 1302, in which Flemish farmers and civilians armed with goedendags stand in battle formation. The goedendags resemble long clubs, but they have a much wider beating ring around the top and it is possible that a daring combatant […]
- 2010, Randall Fegley, The Golden Spurs of Kortrijk: How the Knights of France Fell to the Foot Soldiers of Flanders in 1302, McFarland, →ISBN:
- A buckler cost £1 and a goedendag cost 10 shillings. Body armor, gauntlets, armored hose,and possibly a doublet would be added to this.
- 2019, Harry Pearson, The Beast, the Emperor and the Milkman: A Bone-shaking Tour through Cycling’s Flemish Heartlands, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 76:
- As it was he was fighting the blue-blooded French knights on foot armed with a weapon called a goedendag. The goedendag was a four-foot-long wooden pole with a heavy round steel head capped with a six-inch spike.
Dutch
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Etymology
Univerbation of goeden dag (“good day”, accusative phrase).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “and the weapon sense?”)
Pronunciation
Interjection
goedendag
Noun
goedendag m (plural goedendags)
Descendants
- → English: goedendag
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