Definition of épaulière

1. Noun. Armor plate that protects the shoulder.


Definition of épaulière

1. Noun. The part of a suit of armor covering the shoulder; a shoulder plate. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of épaulière

échappé
échappés
écorché
écorchés
écossaise
écossaises
élan vital
émeute
éminence grises
énarque
énarques
épater la bourgeoisie
épater le bourgeois
épaulière (current term)
épaulières
état major
étoile
étoiles
ðe
øre
übermenschen
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Literary usage of épaulière

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan by Asiatic Society of Japan (1881)
"... being placed closely and sometimes with wider intervals, the general styles being similar to those more fully described under the word Sode (epauliere). ..."

2. Men of Iron by Howard Pyle (1919)
"One wound was beneath his armor, and no one but he knew how serious it might be; the other was under the overlapping of the epauliere, and from it a ..."

3. The Care of Books: An Essay on the Development of Libraries and Their by John Willis Clark (1901)
"This piece of furniture, in modern Italian spalliera, French epauliere, is common in large houses at the present day. It usually stands in an ante-room or ..."

4. The Archaeological Journal by Council, British Archaeological Association, Central Committee (1859)
"... beyond the green shoulder-band of the surcoat, and apparently part of some defence worn beneath it. This probably represents an epauliere ; which, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Military Terms by Edward Samuel Farrow (1918)
"Epauliere.—A thick strap of leather employed in ancient times. It passed over the shoulder and sustained the cuirass, composed of two pieces, ..."

6. Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archeological Society by James Simpson, Richard Saul Ferguson, William Gershom Collingwood (1880)
"St. George, in the glass under consideration, is in plate armour, showing scant glimpses of mail under the gorget, left epauliere, and taces : his head is ..."

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