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单词 flancard
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flancardn.

Forms: Also 1500s ? flaunkart, flankett, 1700s flankart, 1800s (Historical) flanchard.
Etymology: < Old French flancard, < flanc flank n.1Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈflancard.
Obsolete exc. Historical.
1.
a. A piece of armour for the thigh.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > leg armour > for thighs
cuissesc1330
quisserc1330
tuillea1470
thigh-piece1488
flancard1490
taslets1507
quishes1548
tasses1548
cussans1572
tassets1834
tuillette1869
1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) vi. 142 His swerde..cut thrugh..an hundred mayles of his flancardes.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. x. 76 Burnyst flaukartis [? read flan- or flaun-] and leg harnes.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xij Some had..the guissettes the flancardes droped & gutted with red.
b. In horse-armour, one of the side-pieces covering the flanks.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for side
flancard1555
flanker1659
1555 R. Eden tr. G. F. de Oviedo y Valdés Summarie Gen. Hist. W. Indies in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 188v A barbed horse with his barbes and flankettes.
1870 C. C. Black tr. A. Demmin Weapons of War 350 The side pieces or flanchards..which joined the front plate or breast-piece to the thigh-pieces and croupière.
2. = flanker n.1
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > [noun] > works at side
flanker1550
flank1590
side work1633
flancard1767
society > armed hostility > warrior > soldier > soldier by position > [noun] > on flank
flanker1587
flancard1767
1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Province Massachusets-Bay, 1691–1750 ii. 163 And firing briskly from the flankarts, saved the house.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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