PAULDRON


Meaning of PAULDRON in English

/pawl"dreuhn/ , n. Armor.

a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back. Also called epaulière . Cf. spaulder . See diag. under armor .

[ 1400-50; earlier paleron, poleron, late ME polron, pollerons (pl.) espalleron shoulder. See EPAULET ]

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