Etymology

braconniere

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Today it means: A skirt or apron of mail or lamellar armor, worn with plate armor, to defend the stomach, groin, and upper thighs. Full definition →

French braconnière ← Middle French braconniere ← Italian braconi
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The story

  1. Italian · derived frombraconi
  2. Middle French · derived frombraconniere
  3. French · borrowed frombraconnière
  4. English todaybraconniere

From French braconnière, from Middle French braconniere, bragonniere, from Old Italian braconi, from braca.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.