单词 | flancard |
释义 | flancardn. Obsolete exc. Historical. 1. a. A piece of armour for the thigh. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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 ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1490 |
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