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The Green Knight  by Le Rouret

I've gotten a couple of requests for definitions of some of the more obscure parts of armour and armaments I've mentioned in the story.  Sorry for all the confusion!  And thank you, everyone, for paying attention enough to care!  ;-)

Words to Know:

Arming doublet - Clothing worn under armour

Aventail - neck-guard

Besagues - circular shields on cuirass protecting the armpit

Bevor - chin and neck guard

Caltrop - illegal 4-spiked throw, designed to cripple horses and knights

Cantle - back of saddle

Charnel - raised decoration on breastplate

Coronel - decorative end of blunted lance

Crinet - armoured neck guard for destrier

Crupper - armoured haunch guard for destrier

Cuirass - body armour

Cuisse - thigh armour

Destrier - Warhorse

Escutcheon - shield upon which a coat of arms is displayed

Fauld - skirt of cuirass

Gardbrace - shoulder reinforcing plate

Greave - shin armour

Letters Patent/Patents of Nobility - written proof of the nobility of an individual

List - tournament grounds

Manifer - lower arm armour

Numnah - pad under saddle

Palfrey - light riding horse

Pauldron - shoulder armour

Peytral - chest guard for destrier

Poleyn - knee armour

Pommel - end of hilt of sword

Polder-mitten - elbow-flange for deflecting lance’s blow, on right arm

Quintain - swinging device, fitted with a shield and a weight, to train knights to joust

Rondel - guard on hilt of dagger to protect the hand

Rouncey - hackney, lower class riding horse

Sabaton - shoe armour

Shaffron - armoured face guard for horse

Tilt - wooden barrier separating charging horses during a joust

Vambrace - arm armour

Vamplate - hand guard on lance





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