braconniere

English

Alternative forms

• braconnière

Etymology

French braconnière, from Middle French braconniere, bragonniere, from Old Italian braconi, from braca.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌbɹækənˈjɛɚ/

Noun

braconniere (plural braconnieres)

1. A skirt or apron of mail or lamellar armor, worn with plate armor, to defend the stomach, groin, and upper thighs.
   • 1877, Auguste Demmin, An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, London: G. Bell & sons, page 185:

     Danish warrior of the fourteenth century, whose armour is curious because of the braconniere or apron and loinguards in trellised work which partly cover the mailed hauberk.

   • 2012, Kenneth Bulmer, The Key to Venudine: Keys to the Dimensions, Gateway, →ISBN:

     The true blade Peaceful snouted up and seared through the first knight's mail deep into his groin. […] The man collapsed in a clattering uproar of metal clashing against metal. Trouble with a full suit of plate, even today and as far as armorers like Master Gyron had gone, was that betraying section of mail braconniere.

   • 2018, Philip Nowlan, The Prince of Mars Returns, Jovian Press, →ISBN:

     Underneath was a broad girdle of heavy leather and metal plates, from which hung thigh guards and a kind of braconniere, a kilt of chain mail.

Translations

Translations

• French: braconnière (fr) f

Further reading

• S.R. Meyrick (1842) A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page 145: “BRACONNIERE. A petticoat of overlapping lames of steel, worn in the time of Henry VIII.”