单词 | crinet |
释义 | crinetn.ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > parts of > feathers maila1475 barb1486 brails1486 crinet1486 crinel1704 mail-feather1773 crine1855 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. bjv Ther be oon an hawke long smale blake federis: like heris abowte the sere & thossame: be calde Crinettis of ye hawke. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iii. xx. 228 Hawkes of long small blacke feathers like haires about the Sere, are properly called Crinites. 1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman 130/1 Crinets or Crinites, with falconers, small black feathers in hawks. 2. A set of segmented metal plates which cover the top and sides of a horse's neck as part of its protective armour. Cf. crinière n.; cranet n.1 Now historical.The crinet (or criniere) was attached to the chanfron, which protected the horse's head, and the poitrel, which protected its chest. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for neck crinet1530 cranet1548 crinière1598 mane-piece1753 1530 T. Wall Bk. Crests in Ancestor (1905) 12 69 Caveleyr Halyen made Denison by H. viijth beryth to his crest a horsse hede sable chaffron and crynettes gold a busche of oystryshe fethers in his hede quarterly silver and geules in a wreth ar. v. g. ar. 1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie 336 Vpon any sadle, crinet, bard, chapperon, cooperison or other indument. 1631 Remayne His Majesty's Armour in Archaeologia (1857) 37 486 The horse's furniture being a saddle, barbe, crinett [etc.]. 1860 J. Hewitt Anc. Armour III. 633 The king's armour is silvered, the saddle-front, chanfrein and crinet of the horse are also silvered. 1888 Scribner's Mag. Jan. 14/2 The heaviest and most complete horse-armors were found at tourneys—chamfron, crinet, or neck-guard, poitrel for the breast. 1920 G. F. Laking Rec. European Armour III. xxii. 178 For the head there was..the chanfron, for the neck the crinet, for the chest the poitrel. 1967 Punch 29 Nov. 809/3 The whole caboodle would collapse in a sorry ruin of pauldron and salade, breastplate and roundel,..chanfron and crinet. 2008 S. L. Viehl Evermore 258 She stared at the fringe of black mane under the edge of the crinet. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > hair > [noun] > a hair haira800 crinet1573 rib1864 strand1870 1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 414 First for hir head, the heares were not of gold, But of some other metall farie more fine, Whereof each crinet seemed to behold, Like glisting wiers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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