Meaning of pasguard | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“The pasguard is also linched on a pin standing out of the elbow-piece, and the grandguard and pasguard are ornamented with the same designs […]”

“[…] On the left elbow also was fixed a pin, to which by a linch-pin could be fixed a large plate protecting the elbow and parts of the upper and fore arm. This was the real pasguard, though in modern times the name⟳ has erroneously been transferred to the upright plates springing from the pauldrons or shoulder armour, and to a certain extent protecting the sides of the neck. Below this pasguard again was worn over the left gauntlet a large manifer, or main de fer.”

“(ii) Pasguard (283). Derived from the old guard of the vambrace. A large wing-like reinforce for the left elbow, attached by a staple and pivot-hook. Some 19th-century writers mistakenly applied this term to the haute-piece.”

“Specimen Number⟳ 6 This is the pasguard (extra reinforcing piece for the left arm for use⟳ in the tilt) from an armour made for Henry VIII about 1540 and now in Windsor Castle. The cross - section shows a mixture of ferrite and[…]”

“To reinforce the left arm from the shoulder to the wrist, a large L-shaped plate called a pasguard, or soprabracciale, is screwed to the threaded socket in the left elbow of the vambrace (fig. 81). The pasguard overlaps the grandguard at the shoulder and keeps the left arm in a bent position. […] the combination of grandguard, pasguard and manifer protected the rider's left side, […] [image; caption:] Fig. 81. Pasguard (soprabracciale) from the Dos Aguas garniture (27.159.4)”

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