Meanings
- historicalobsoleteA close-fitting undergarment, over which the armor (and hose) were fastened.
A maniple, i.e. many folds, a name for the haustement worn in the time of Hen. VI under the armour.
1842, Samuel R. Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, page 1983 more examples
The Haustement or Ajustement, […] was made to the shape and worn with the shirt […] The doublet and haustement of this period supplied the place of the wambais and hoqueton formerly worn . 2. The doublet must be streightly bounde . The first part of the dress being thus put on , it is to be closely bound round the ...
1824, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity, page 497A Pair of Plates consisted of the breast and back, each formed of three or more pieces; Gyders were straps to draw together the open parts; the Haustement, a stiff under garment to keep the body straight and erect; the Rerebrace ...
1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopedia of antiquities; and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval, page 803Gusset, pieces of chain mail, tied with points to the "haustement" to cover those portions of the body not protected with plate armour; they were usually eight in number, viz. for armpits, […]
2008(?), Charles John ffoulkes, The Armourer and His Craft, Cosimo, Inc., page 161
Origin
- Old Frenchajostement
- Middle Englishhaustement
- Englishhaustement
From Middle English haustement, perhaps from Old French ajostement.
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