Meaning of neckguard | Babel Free

Examples

“The first figure is mounted, and the armour of both man and horse is for war, with a very large neckguard developed from the left pauldron.”

“It is affixed by a bolt to a pauldron of four plates, of which the main plate has an outward-turned flange which fits neatly within the high neckguard of the reinforcing plate (pl. cxviii, 4). The right pauldron […]”

“[…] the single design has been identified as a pauldron […] may well have misunderstood this French term and applied it to the high neckguard for the left side.”

“The pauldrons are smooth and curve upwards at the top to provide a neckguard. The lames of the fauld are very narrow and unimportant, while the tasses are long and heavy. The lady has the short pedimental head-dress, and padded ...”

“[…] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy […]”

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