passegarde

plural passegardes

1. alternativeAlternative form of passguard (“plate sticking up off shoulder-armor to protect the neck”).

   Passegardes, in ancient armor, were ridges on the shoulder-pieces to turn the blow of a lance.

   2019, Thomas Wilhelm, A Military Dictionary and Gazetteer, Good Press

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   The shoulder-plates (Achselstücke), with or without passegardes (Ränder). The palettes (Achselhöhlscheiben), which protected the armpits, and whose use does not date farther back than the middle of the fifteenth century[…]

   1870, Auguste Demmin, Weapons of war, tr. by C.C. Black, page 223

   There is a very instructive series of monumental efligies at Meissen, engraved by Hollis, of successive dukes of Saxony, showing the continuous advances in Albert, who died in 1500, wears the armet, pauldrons with passegardes,[…]

   1899, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 233

   Springbuck turned from his second adversary after shearing through passegarde, pauldron and shoulder, just in time to see Bulf go against the commander of the enemy troops, an accomplished fighter who wore armor of ancient design ...

   1977, Brian Daley, The Domfarers of Coramonde, Lucia St. Clair Robson, →ISBN, page 273