dossière

English

Etymology

French dossière (from dos + -ière) or a Middle or Old French predecessor.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɔsˈjɛəɹ/, /dɔs.iˈɛəɹ/, /dɑs-/, /doʊs-/

Noun

dossière (plural dossières)

1. The backplate of a cuirass; an item of plate armor covering the back.

   Coordinate terms: breastplate, plastron

   • 1902, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Proceedings, page 155:

     The body armor consisted of the plastron and dossière (breast and backplates), strapped together at the sides; […]

   • 1911, Bashford Dean, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 7:

     COMPLETE ARMOR Italian (?) ABOUT 1480 A harness [...] Their character is strongly Italian, and so, too, is the treatment of the dossière, of the knee, and of the shell of the elbow-guard.

   • 1924, University of Pennsylvania. University Museum, The Museum Journal, page 178:

     It is elaborate armor consisting of large breastplates and dossière connected by leather straps over the shoulders, the two breastplates joined in front under a leather strap which is buckled to a wide leather girdle.

French

Noun

dossière f (plural dossières)

1. dossière (armor)
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Further reading

• “dossière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.