garde de rein

Meanings

noun

historicalAn item of armor which hangs down from the backplate to protect the kidneys and buttocks.
The Back-plate of blue Steel, with Culette or Garde de Rein attached.
2013, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 56
4 more examples
A complete Suit of Plate Armour Consisting of the Helmet with rising Beaver and Gorget, the Cuirass with the Garde de Rein or Culettes, the Pouldrons or shoulder pieces, the Brassarts or vambraces for arms, the Groussets for the ...
1815, P. Dick, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Museum of Antiquities and Foreign Curiosities, page 19
... with a garde de rein of several overlapping pieces to protect behind from one hip to the other, and a similar guard in front, which Pere Daniel terms tassettes, a word of German imposition, from their covering the pockets ...
1821, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 144
... and backplate with small garde de rein; pauldrons, coudrés rere and vambraces; mitten gauntlets with marked fingers; high gorget; tasses reaching to the knee; and unusually large palettes, the projecting spike in the centre ...
1894, Exhibition of Venetian Art: The New Gallery, Regent Street, 1894-5, page 95
Suit of Armour, Pikeman, of the 17th century, consisting of casque, gorget, breast-piece, back-piece, and garde de rein.
1908, Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Museum, Official Catalogue of the Royal United Service Museum, Whitehall, S.W., page 175
Synonyms: culet, hoguine