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Definition of Pouldrons
1. pouldron [n] - See also: pouldron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouldrons
Literary usage of Pouldrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Manuscripts of the Earl of Dartmouth by William Walter Legge Dartmouth, William Oxenham Hewlett, Benjamin Franklin Stevens, William Page (1896)
"... consisting of an head peece, back, breast, a paire of pouldrons and vambraces,
a paire of greaves and a pace guard. The horse furniture being a ..."
2. Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors by Thomas Blount, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"The vambraces included all the defence for the arms from the pouldrons to the
wrist.—Hid. Arura.—One day's work at the plough. ..."
3. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1903)
"... without either pouldrons, vambraces, gauntlets or tasses. Their Horsemen also
and themselves serving on horseback with Launces or any other weapon, ..."
4. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"... (mere names of the garde de reine) pouldrons, vam- braces, a left hand
gauntlet (probably of leather for the bridle-arm), taces, much shorter than those ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"... wearing their pouldrons and gauntlets, nnd bearing staves of good ash, armed
at both ends, fight with them as occasion serveth at the halfe staffe, ..."
6. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1888)
"They wore helmets " well lined with quilted linen " and cuirassés, breast and
back pieces; also "taces" to cover belly and thigh, and " pouldrons " for ..."
7. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"... pouldrons,Vaunt-brace, Pikes, & Lances Are no defence, but rather hinderances.
Morinda (mö-riu'dä), ». [NL. (Vaillant, 1722). so called from the shape ..."
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