haute-piecen.
Obsolete.
The shoulder-piece in plate armour; = pauldron at pouldron n. α. forms.
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pouldrona1396
spaudelera1400
ailettec1440
haute-piecea1500
pollet1548
shoulder-piece1580
epaulette1824
shoulder shield1824
shoulder cap1830
scale1846
shoulder plate1846
a1500 Melusine xlix. (E.E.T.S.) 325 Thenne Geffray smote hym [the giant] with his swerd vpon the sholder, for he myght not reche his heed, and cutte the haulte piece of his harneys.
c1500 Melusine (1895) 145 Vryan..atteyned hym with his trenchaunt swerde betwix the heed & the sholders..and his hawtepyece fell of with the forsaid stroke.
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