garde rein

plural garde reins

1. alternativeAlternative form of garde de rein.

   Garde rein, of four plates. Tassets, of three plates. Espaliers, of six plates. Coudes. Shell vambraces. Mitten gauntlets, with pointed cuff.

   1901, Wallace Collection (London, England), Sir Guy Francis Laking, Catalogue of the European Armour and Arms in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, page 3

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   ARMOR Spanish This harness suggests an early period; nevertheless, judged from several details […] Back plate is formed of median and lateral elements: there are deep braconnière and garde reins, composed of four lames ...

   1911, Bashford Dean, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 10

   […] is also laminated; it is made up of a large upper plate, two intermediate pieces, and a lowermost plate or garde reins. These elements are riveted together and made interflexible by the use of slotted grooves in which ...

   1920, Bashford Dean, Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, page 252

   These have been denoted the garde rein or culet. Usually a skirt of mail or at least a mail brayette was worn under these defenses. The shoulders were protected by pauldrons of lames, overlapping from the bottom up.

   2000, Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 120