A historical garment or piece of protective clothing, possibly related to battening or reinforced fabric used in armor.
From 'batter' or 'batten' plus 'fang' (a dialectal or archaic term for a piece or portion). This is an extremely rare or obsolete term with uncertain etymology.
This word is so obscure that even historical textile scholars disagree on its exact meaning—it appears in a few medieval documents but then vanishes from English entirely, representing one of thousands of specialized trade terms that got lost as craftspeople stopped using them.
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