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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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