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pouldron, pauldron Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈpəʊldrən, ˈpɔːldrən|
Forms: α. 5 (?)–6 polron, (5 polrond, 6 pollarone, polrynge). β. 6 poldron, (-drone, -dren, -derne, -drand, pollderon), 6– pouldron, (6–7 -dern, 7, 9 powldron). γ. 6 paleron, 6, 9 pauldron, (9 paldron).
[In 15–16th c. polron, pollerone, for *poleron, in Palsgr. 1530 paleron, app. aphetic forms of OF. espauleron, espalleron, f. espaule, mod.F. épaule shoulder; subseq. with d developed between l and r. The rare form pauldron, known once in 16th c., is that employed by recent writers on armour.
Palsgrave has F. espalleron in this sense, as = paleron; but the ordinary sense of OF. espauleron was shoulder-blade, shoulder of an animal. Mod.F. paleron shoulder-blade, omoplate, is referred by etymologists to pale blade of an oar, which does not suit the sense of the Eng. word.]
A piece of armour covering the shoulder; a shoulder-plate.
α1465Marg. Paston in P. Lett. II. 190 As for the harnys Wyks delyveryd it..to hym..ij payr polronds [etc.]. c1550Clariodes MS. (Hall.), Some only but a sure gepon Over his polrynges reaching to the kne. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. ix. 200 Their pollerones are garnished with golde. 1579–80North Plutarch (1895) IV. 139 With both hands strived..to rent their polrons from their shoulders.
β1544in Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII, XIX. i. 465 Pollderon. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 82 The kyng of England..brake his Poldron & him disarmed. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Avant bras d'vn harnois, the polderne of an armour. 1581Styward Mar. Discipl. i. 44 The poldrens with the Vambraces. 1590Sir J. Smyth Disc. Weapons 3 Without either pouldrons, vambraces, gauntlets or tasses. 1654Earl of Monmouth tr. Bentivoglio's Warrs Flanders 401 There he raised three new redoubts, which were by a popular word of souldiery called Pouldrons. 1795Southey Joan of Arc viii. 454 Lifting high the deadly battle axe, Through pouldron and through shoulder deeply driven. 1840Hor. Smith O. Cromwell I. 283 Heavy cuirassiers, with helmets, breast and back pieces, poldrons and taslets.
γ1530Palsgr. 251/1 Paleron, a pece of harnesse, espalleron. 1594R. Ashley tr. Loys le Roy 30 Gorgets, pauldrons, vantbrasses, tasses. 1834J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 186 Shoulders..covered with overlapping plates called pauldrons. 1869Boutell Arms & Arm. (1874) 204 When the shoulders were covered by the reinforce-plates, they were distinguished as pauldrons.
transf.1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 126 His [the lobster's] compleate Armour..his tases, vauntbraces, powldrons, Coushes.
†b. pouldron to pouldron: shoulder to shoulder.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. i. 37 Causing them to march vp close pouldron to pouldron. 1672T. Venn Milit. & Maritime Discipl. vii. 15 A Rank is a Row of men uncertain in Number: Pouldron to Pouldron.
c. attrib.
1840Browning Sordello v. 876 [He] flung away The pauldron-rings to give his sword-arm play.
Hence ˈpouldroned a., armed with a pouldron.
1688R. Holme Armoury iii. xvii. (Roxb.) 109/2 He beareth Azure, a sinister Arme vambraced, and pouldroned. |