pisan

plural pisans

1. alternativeAlternative form of pisane.

   [Those] worth ten pounds a year in land, or more, shall have basnet, sallat (or helm without a crest,) white-hat, gorget or pisan, armour for the legs, sword, spear, and dagger: those of smaller incomes to arm accordingly.

   1797, John Pinkerton, The History Of Scotland From The Accession Of The House Of Stuart To That Of Mary: With Appendixes Of Original Papers. In Two Volumes, page 406

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   […] halbrik or brigantine, gorget or pisan with splents, knee.pans of mail and gauntlets of plate or mail; that unlanded gentlemen and yeoman have jacks of plate, halbriks, splents, sallat or steel bonnet with pisan or gorget […]

   1889, Bernard Homer Dixon, The Border Or Riding Clans: Followed by a History of the Clan Dickson and a Brief Account of the Family of the Author, Albany, N.Y.: J. Munsell's Sons, page 78

   Garret was the true “Ard Ri” of a large part of Ireland, and the chiefs to whom he presented the horses, coats of mail, gorgets and pisans recorded in the Rental looked on these as the customary stipends due from an over-king.

   1923, Edmund Curtis, A History of Mediaeval Ireland from 1110 to 1513, page 411

1. not comparableOf, from or relating to the city of Pisa or surrounding province, Tuscany, Italy.

plural Pisans

1. A native or inhabitant of the city of Pisa or surrounding province, Tuscany, Italy.