crinet

plural crinets

1. obsoletefalconryEach of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.

   She has a blue beak, but the seer thereof, and legs, are yellow; the crinets or little feathers under the eye are very black; […]

   1792, William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, page 379

2. historicalA set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.

   His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.

   1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555

   Synonyms: criniere