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Definition of Sollerets
1. solleret [n] - See also: solleret
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sollerets
Literary usage of Sollerets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"The sollerets and the epaulettes are articulated; the gauntlets have gads, like
those of the Black Prince (plate 2); the sword is attached to the cingulum ..."
2. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1897)
"Defences of plate armour for the feet are called sollerets, and are first, ...
Other varieties are the scaled sollerets of the De Cheney brass, ..."
3. Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First by John Starkie Gardner (1897)
"Defences of plate armour for the feet are called sollerets, and are first, ...
Other varieties are the scaled sollerets of the De Cheney brass, ..."
4. Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Works of Art, from the Byzantine by Ralph Bernal (1855)
"... and lance rest, solid cuisses and jambs, with square- toed sollerets ; the
belt has a curious chain for attaching the sword—probably Spanish—about 1520 ..."
5. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1905)
"To the writer's knowledge the sollerets, with their ... the cuisses, jambs, and
sollerets of the legs are of fine quality, Though the Collection contains ..."
6. The Portfolio: Monographs on Artistic Subjects by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1898)
"Of tit sollerets, however, unfortunately only the left, with its fine ...
The sollerets ani perhaps some other pieces are restorations. ..."
7. A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1834)
"... jambs and sollerets, completed the suit. Defensive armour from the knee
downwards does not, however, appear to have been used after the reign of James ..."
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