Zhazeran - so in the XVI century in France called women's jewelry that is worn with stand-up collar. It looked like a chain of gold or a long string of large pearls with inserts, rosettes made of precious stones. One or two rows zhazerana fit under the collar, the remaining length was placed on the chest in different ways.
In addition, zhazeran (zhazerant, dzhazerant) - a kind of armor that came from Arab countries in Europe in the XIV century. Makes it by clamping on the outer side of the fabric "scales" in the form of plates or strips of stiff leather, metal horns. The literature also described as a flexible chain mail. Spellings of words in various historical sources vary: jazeran, jazerant, jazerine, jazarino, jesseraunt and others. Among the etymological origin of the word versions of the two most well-known from Canaanite «jazer» (care, protection) and from the Arabic "al-Jazaïry" (Algeria - ie from Algeria).