Meanings
- alternativenot comparableAlternative form of alwhite.
Wearing alwyte armour, the islander's knights could not defend their land as the sky over the last island to be attacked by advancing coalition forces was filled[…]
2012 September 25, Bismark Ansah, Princess Victoria and the Sorcerer of the Isle of Man, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 151 more example
The other, with a 'white' back and breast (i.e., plain polished steel), but a skirt covered in blue velvet, is a near approach to the 'alwyte' harness which became universally popular a couple of decades after.
2012, Ewart Oakeshott, European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 194
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alwyte. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alwyte
“alwyte.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/alwyte. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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