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pauldron

[ pawl-druhn ]

noun

Armor.
  1. 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

/ 藞辫蓴藧濒诲谤蓹苍 /

noun

  1. either of two metal plates worn with armour to protect the shoulders
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pauldron1

1400鈥50; earlier paleron, poleron, late Middle English polron, pollerons (plural) < Middle French espalleron shoulder. See epaulet
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pauldron1

C15: from French espauleron, from espaule shoulder; see epaulette
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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.

From

He had to teach himself to possess a sound opinion on hundreds of disputed points 鈥攐n 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.

From

Overplate, 艒鈥瞯臈r-pl膩t, n. in armour, a large pauldron protecting the shoulder, or a cubiti锟絩e protecting the elbow.

From

Pauldron, pawl鈥瞕ron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.

From

Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace.

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