passe garde

English

Noun

passe garde (plural passe gardes)

  1. Alternative form of passguard (“plate sticking up off shoulder-armor to protect the neck”)
    • 1872, Edward Lewes Cutts, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages, page 452:
      The horizontal bands of armour called taces, depending from the corslet […] sometimes by the addition of a passe garde — a kind of high collar which protected the neck  […]
    • 1883, The Archaeological Journal, page 309:
      They are all bare-headed, and wear ruffs round the throat. […] A.D. 1532, the passe gardes are of large size, and stand up from the pauldrons like  […]
    • 1914, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire:
      A narrow mail collar defends the knight's throat. […] while the passe garde on the left shoulder is higher, so as to protect the neck from a sweeping  […]
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