neckguard

plural neckguards

1. alternativeAlternative form of neck guard.

   The first figure is mounted, and the armour of both man and horse is for war, with a very large neckguard developed from the left pauldron.

   1907, Country Life, page 847

   4 more examples

   It is affixed by a bolt to a pauldron of four plates, of which the main plate has an outward-turned flange which fits neatly within the high neckguard of the reinforcing plate (pl. cxviii, 4). The right pauldron […]

   1938, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity

   […] the single design has been identified as a pauldron […] may well have misunderstood this French term and applied it to the high neckguard for the left side.

   1964, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Art in America

   The pauldrons are smooth and curve upwards at the top to provide a neckguard. The lames of the fauld are very narrow and unimportant, while the tasses are long and heavy. The lady has the short pedimental head-dress, and padded ...

   , Alabaster Tombs, CUP Archive, page 74

   […] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy […]

   1976, Apollo: A Journal of the Arts