passe-garde

English

Noun

passe-garde (plural passe-gardes)

1. Alternative form of passguard (“plate sticking up off shoulder-armor to protect the neck”)
   • 1899, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 245:

     A brass of a knight of the Cuttes family in Arkesdon church, Essex (1410), is a good example of what may be termed the development of épaulières into pauldrons. Passe-gardes, generally applied to 'Maximilian' armour, are really to be found occasionally much earlier, as an example in Southerly church (1479) shows. The Beauchamp brass figure at Warwick (1439) shows the passe-garde, but the general character of the armor indicates a later date of make.

   • 2021, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, Good Press:

     In this ridging for neck defence occurred the first idea of passe-gardes or pike-guards, an innovation which in different forms was in vogue during the  […]
     […] The pauldron and its passe-garde or pike-guard is well shown upon a suit of […]

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pas.ɡaʁd/, /pɑs.ɡaʁd/

Noun

passe-garde f (plural passe-gardes)

1. passguard (“plate sticking up off shoulder-armor to protect the neck”)

   Synonym: garde-collet

   • 1862, Octave Penguilly L'Haridon, Catalogue des collections composant le musée d'artillerie, page 179:

     Passe-gardes aux deux épaulières. Tassettes articulées à trois lames.

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   • 1899, Maurice Maindron, Le tournoi de Vauplassans: (ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française), page 86:

     Et il se comparait à cet homme si parfait en la plénitude de ses formes d’athlète que dessinait le harnois de Milan, exagérant la largeur des épaules par les passe-gardes des épaulières, la finesse de la taille […]

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   • 1902, Catalogue des armes et armures du Musée ..., page 85:

     Grandes passe-gardes symétriques, rivées aux épaulières; l’épaulière droite est échancrée pour le passage […]

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Usage notes

• May have originally referred to special elbow armor for jousting in instead; see English passguard for more.