braconniere

plural braconnieres · alternative braconnière

1. A skirt or apron of mail or lamellar armor, worn with plate armor, to defend the stomach, groin, and upper thighs.

   Underneath was a broad girdle of heavy leather and metal plates, from which hung thigh guards and a kind of braconniere, a kilt of chain mail.

   2018, Philip Nowlan, The Prince of Mars Returns, Jovian Press, →ISBN

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   Danish warrior of the fourteenth century, whose armour is curious because of the braconniere or apron and loinguards in trellised work which partly cover the mailed hauberk.

   1877, Auguste Demmin, An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, London: G. Bell & sons, page 185

   The true blade Peaceful snouted up and seared through the first knight's mail deep into his groin. […] The man collapsed in a clattering uproar of metal clashing against metal. Trouble with a full suit of plate, even today and as far as armorers like Master Gyron had gone, was that betraying section of mail braconniere.

   2012, Kenneth Bulmer, The Key to Venudine: Keys to the Dimensions, Gateway, →ISBN