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单词 pasguard
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pasguardn.

Brit. /ˈpɑːsˌɡɑːd/, /ˈpasˌɡɑːd/, U.S. /ˈpæsˌɡɑrd/
Forms: 1500s pacegarde, 1500s pasegarde, 1500s 1800s– pasguard, 1600s paceguard, 1600s– passguard, 1800s passegarde, 1900s– passeguard.
Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: pass n.4, guard n.
Etymology: Apparently < pass n.4 (although this is first attested later) + guard n.No equivalent form is recorded in any other European language at the period in which this piece of armour was in use.
Armour. Now historical.
1. A detachable reinforcing piece of armour attached to the left elbow, and worn in some forms of tournament from the late 15th cent. to the 17th cent.A pasguard was usually worn as a complement to a grand guard.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour > for elbow > part attached to elbow armour
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1519 in C. Ffoulkes Armour & Weapons (1909) iii. 52 9 yards of Cheshire cotton at 7d. for lining the king's pasguard.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xij One sorte had the vambrases the pacegardes the grandgardes..parted with golde and azure.
1660 Tower Surv. in Archæol. Jrnl. (1847) 4 346 Sundry parcells of Tilt Armour..Pace-guards, viz. Russet, 7, White, 3:10. Granguards, viz. Russet, 7, White, 2:9.
1668 Tower Surv. in J. Hewitt Anc. Armour (1860) One compleat armr capape engraven with the ragged staffe with a maine~guard and passguard—made for the Earle of Leicester.
1876 J. Hewitt in C. A. Stothard Monumental Effigies Great Brit. 190 This would seem to fix the name of passguard to the additional elbow-defence.
1898 Archaeol. Jrnl. 5 313 The pasguard is also linched on a pin.
1916 C. J. Ffoulkes Inventory & Surv. Armouries of Tower of London I. iii. 168 Pasguards (XVIth Century) for the left elbow. Weight, 3lb. 8oz.
1990 Financial Times (Nexis) 24 May i. 23 Made of steel they [sc. the two reinforcing pieces] consist of a grandguard and pasguard and belong to one of the most famous 18th century armour garnitures.
2. A raised ridge-like projection on a shoulder-plate, intended to deflect the blow of a lance. Now rare.This sense is the result of an erroneous interpretation of the word made by Grose and given currency by Meyrick.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > body armour > [noun] > shoulder armour > part of
pasguard1786
1786 F. Grose Treat. Anc. Armour 24 On each shoulder was also fixed a plate declining from the face like wings,..these were intended to protect the eyes from the point of the lance, they were called pass guards.
1824 S. R. Meyrick Crit. Inq. into Antient Armour II. 228 This plate..gives us..an example of what are properly called pass-guards; viz. plates set perpendicularly on the pauldrons, being screwed on the upper piece of them.
1846 F. W. Fairholt Costume in Eng. 281 Plates called passe-gardes were affixed to the shoulders..to guard the neck from the thrust of a lance.
1909 C. Ffoulkes Armour & Weapons iii. 50 A portion of the pauldron which is designed for..glancing defence, and for this only, is the upstanding Neck- or Shoulder-guard which is so generally described as the Passe-guard.
1934 G. C. Stone Gloss. Constr., Decoration, & Use of Arms & Armour 484/2 Pass-guard, passe-guard, formerly this was believed to be the projecting plates, like wings, on the shoulder cops of the eighteenth century.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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