Meaning of crinet | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Each of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.
   obsolete
2. A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.
   historical

Examples

“She has a blue beak, but the seer thereof, and legs, are yellow; the crinets or little feathers under the eye are very black; […]”

“His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.”

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