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Noun
1931, Francis M Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, “Index and Glossary”, in A Short History of Costume & Armour, Chiefly in England, volumes I (1066–1485), Benjamin Blom, Inc., published 1968, →LCCN, page 81, column 1:Cuirass—Armour for the trunk—back and breast—in alwite or cuirbouly, 46, 47, 54, 62, 64;
Adjective
- Alternative form of alwhite
2003, Stephen Friar, The Sutton Companion to Castles, History PressLtd:A full harness of alwite armour was tailored for a particular client and was therefore enormously expensive. The finest harnesses were imported from Italy (notably from the Missaglia workshop in Milan), and […]
- 2020, Ewelina Imiołczyk, et al., An Armour from a finery?—a late medieval couter from Ogrodzieniec Castle , in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, volume 12, article number 61:
- In general terms, among various armour styles, the Ogrodzieniec couter seems to best match the German “alwite” style from the first half of the fifteenth century
- Grabarczyk T (1992) Występowanie i zastosowanie zbroi płytowej białej w drugiej połowie XV w. (Occurrence and use of alwite plate armour in the second half of the 15th c.). Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica 50: 77–92