Meaning of garde de rein | Babel Free

Definitions

An item of armor which hangs down from the backplate to protect the kidneys and buttocks.

historical

Examples

“A complete Suit of Plate Armour Consisting of the Helmet with rising Beaver and Gorget, the Cuirass with the Garde de Rein or Culettes, the Pouldrons or shoulder pieces, the Brassarts or vambraces for arms, the Groussets for the ...”

“... with a garde de rein of several overlapping pieces to protect behind from one hip to the other, and a similar guard in front, which Pere Daniel terms tassettes, a word of German imposition, from their covering the pockets ...”

“... and backplate with small garde de rein; pauldrons, coudrés rere and vambraces; mitten gauntlets with marked fingers; high gorget; tasses reaching to the knee; and unusually large palettes, the projecting spike in the centre ...”

“Suit of Armour, Pikeman, of the 17th century, consisting of casque, gorget, breast-piece, back-piece, and garde de rein.”

“The Back-plate of blue Steel, with Culette or Garde de Rein attached.”

CEFR level