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Definition of Pauldrons
1. pauldron [n] - See also: pauldron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pauldrons
Literary usage of Pauldrons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, and Other Objects of Vertu by Henry George Bohn, Ralph Bernal (1857)
"6s W. Lake Price, Esq. 2431 A SPANISH DEMI-SUIT, consisting of helmet, with its
original springs, breast and back plates, arms, and pauldrons : it is ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"pauldrons were reduced, less angular and composed of overlapping steel lames, a
pike guard (passe-garde) was usually on top. ..."
3. Monumental Brasses by Herbert Walter Macklin (1891)
"pauldrons, massive steel plates protecting the upper arms and shoulders. ...
A collar of mail was now substituted for the gorget, and the pauldrons and ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1912)
"On the two lower pins hang the pauldrons. The margins of the armholes have stout
... THE pauldrons. The pauldrons are a pair, but the left one has the ..."
5. Bas-reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I at Abydos by Herbert Eustis Winlock (1921)
"Overlapping plates of the colletin, loin defense, pauldrons, gauntlets, ...
the top lames of the pauldrons after first passing through holes (without linch ..."
6. A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain by Matthew Holbeche Bloxam (1834)
"It is somewhat curious, too, that the pauldrons, though covering the arm-pits in
front, the right one having its excavation supplied by a palette, ..."
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