tonnelet

plural tonnelets

1. alternativeAlternative form of tonlet.

   It consisted of a helmet with a pointed visor decorated with plumes along the crest, an ornate breastplate with a stomacher, a tonnelet covered with two different rows of bullion, and ankleboots.

   1992, Stephen Varick Dock, Costume & Fashion in the Plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière: A Seventeenth-century Perspective

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   The head-piece is a salade of German shape, with a lifting visor beneath which, attached to the breastplate [...] The most remarkable plates of this armour are those which compose its skirt or tonnelet, a part known in France as the grande braconnière: this skirt, which covers the thighs, consists of six plates.

   1920, Sir Guy Francis Laking, Charles Alexander baron de Cosson, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries