neckguard

English

Noun

neckguard (plural neckguards)

1. Alternative form of neck guard
   • 1907, Country Life, page 847:

     The first figure is mounted, and the armour of both man and horse is for war, with a very large neckguard developed from the left pauldron.

   • 1938, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity:

     It is affixed by a bolt to a pauldron of four plates, of which the main plate has an outward-turned flange which fits neatly within the high neckguard of the reinforcing plate (pl. cxviii, 4). The right pauldron […]

   • 1964, Frank Jewett Mather, Frederic Fairchild Sherman, Art in America:

     […] the single design has been identified as a pauldron […] may well have misunderstood this French term and applied it to the high neckguard for the left side.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Alabaster Tombs, CUP Archive (→ISBN), page 74:

     The pauldrons are smooth and curve upwards at the top to provide a neckguard. The lames of the fauld are very narrow and unimportant, while the tasses are long and heavy. The lady has the short pedimental head-dress, and padded ...

   • 1976, Apollo: A Journal of the Arts:

     […] a pair of pauldrons with the light horizontal bar which in later years developed into the high neckguard of the sixteenth century; numbers of gauntlets, visors of helmets, and other pieces, the handling of which is a sheer joy  […]