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- from Middle English picer, piciere (attested in the plural, olde picers, also pic(i)eres) "breastplate for a war horse", from Old French piciere, (modern Fr. pissière?)
1849, The United Service Magazine, page 37:Beneath this was the poitrail, piciere, potrinail or breast plate; not as now a mere strap, but a broad plate of steel or leather fashioned to the breast and shoulders of the horse, and not unfrequently rising high up before the saddle,
1857, British Archaeological Association, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, page 132:The chest of the horse would seem to be protected with a breastplate, or sort of piciere, consisting of several large annular bosses, with a festoon of oval
- 1867, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, volumes 7-8, page 90:
- ">…] It is difficult to determine whether the vandyked ornamentations between the various divisions of the bridle are intended to pourtray the design upon a leather collar, piciere, or breast-plate on the chest of the animal, or merely a fanciful filling up, as nothing resembling it appears upon the necks of the bronze receptacles mentioned, save a little ornamented medallion or stud (?) upon one specimen,
1867, The Reliquary: depository for precious relics, legendary, biographical, and historical, page 89:The chest of the horse would seem to be protected with a breast-plate, or sort of piciere, consisting of
Middle English citations of piciere
- 1316, the Inventory of Louis le Hutin , quoted in translation in 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, 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=158:
- Item a coat, bracers, hose, and shield, and chapel covered with velvet, and horse-covering with the king's Item picieres and flanchieres of samit , having on them the king's arms, the fleur-de-lys being of Cyprus gold.}}
- Item, picieres et flanchieres de samit des armes le roy.