cnemid

plural cnemids

1. A greave: a bronze shin protector worn in combat by Ancient Greek warriors.

   The fresco battle painting from Pylos, Greece, shows warriors wearing cnemids for protection.

   2008, Jean Guilaine, Jean Zammit, translated by Melanie Hersey, The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory, Wiley, page 205

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   But at times it had been thought that they could have been variations on the cnemid, the bronze shin-protector worn by Greek warriors in combat.

   1979, Jacques Briard, translated by Mary Turton, The Bronze Age in Barbarian Europe: From the Megaliths to the Celts, Routledge, page 106

   This helmet and the pair of greaves (shin guard), or cnemids, complementing it belong to the key elements of a panoply, the set of offensive and defensive arms that a Greek warrior would have used in combat.

   c. 2017, “Helmet of the Corinthian Type and Pair of Greaves”, in Metropolitan Museum of Art