braconnière

plural braconnières

1. alternativeAlternative form of braconniere.

   D, braconnière of plates sliding one over another;

   1889, “belt”, in The Century Dictionary of the English Language: An Encyclopedic Lexicon, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 519

   5 more examples

   The body armor consisted of the plastron and dossière (breast and backplates), strapped together at the sides; the lower part of the plastron, covering the abdomen, being further protected by a reinforcement or additional plate called the braconnière, composed of three articulated plaques of steel.

   1904, Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia for the Years 1902-1903, Philadelphia, Pa., page 155

   The pieces of the couvre-nuque, the gorget, the rerebrace, and the braconnière and the tassets were held together in this way.

   1905, Richard George Hatton, Figure Composition, page 292

   […]gauntlets, visors, breastplates, heaumes, palettes and salades; with cuisses, solerets and shoes à la poulaine; with pauldrons, braconnières, tassets, loin-guards, vamplates, surtouts, and bassinets.

   1907, Albert Kinross, Davenant, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 92

   The braconnière and tassets are, however, of somewhat later date (about 1535).

   1914, The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1843-1909

   The firm of Coda, for instance, which is carrying on this traditional occupation of Minorca, now makes chatelain vanity bags in place of braconnières, and the clumsy solleret, which was produced with excessive pains and slowness, has vanished before such things as the engine-turned gold cigarette case.

   1921, Dun’s International Review