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pauldron
[ pawl-druhn ]
noun
- a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.
pauldron
/ ˈ±èɔ˱ô»å°ùÉ™²Ô /
noun
- either of two metal plates worn with armour to protect the shoulders
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of pauldron1
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Example Sentences
He has an angry facial expression and wears silver armor with streaks of body and face war paint; a red, black and silver helmet; boots; gauntlets; and a light-blue shoulder pauldron.
He had to teach himself to possess a sound opinion on hundreds of disputed points —on the proper length of weapons, or the cut of a mantling, or the articulation of a pauldron, or whether cedarwood was better than ash for spears, as Chaucer seems to have believed.
Overplate, Å′vÄ—r-plÄt, n. in armour, a large pauldron protecting the shoulder, or a cubiti�re protecting the elbow.
Pauldron, pawl′dron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.
Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace.
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