acketon

Definitions

Noun. [B1]

Examples

“The pay⟳ of the other soldiers was, as is said above, the same as in the preceding reign, except that the foot foldiers, armed with acketons and bacinetts, received 3d. each per diem; and those unarmed, stiled naked footmen ...”

“and certain lames of the pauldrons and tasses. The armour was generally more or less lined throughout, and in the place⟳ of the gambesons, acketons, etc., of the earlier Middle Ages, we have⟳ the arming-doublet […]”

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