Meaning of pauncher | Babel Free

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Noun. [B2]

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“[…] a bascinet and a steel cap with visors, breastplates, a pauncher, greaves, and vambraces and rearbraces. The owner's piety is suggested by an image of the Blessed Mary in alabaster and another of St. John the Baptist.”

“[…] and lively renditions of this armor, with breast plaques, and lamellar shoulder guards, pauncher or midriff guard, […]”

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