braconnière

English

Noun

braconnière (plural braconnières)

1. Alternative form of braconniere
   • 1889, “belt”, in The Century Dictionary of the English Language: An Encyclopedic Lexicon, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., page 519:

     D, braconnière of plates sliding one over another;

   • 1904, Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia for the Years 1902-1903, Philadelphia, Pa., page 155:

     The body armor consisted of the plastron and dossière (breast and backplates), strapped together at the sides; the lower part of the plastron, covering the abdomen, being further protected by a reinforcement or additional plate called the braconnière, composed of three articulated plaques of steel.

   • 1905, Richard George Hatton, Figure Composition, page 292:

     The pieces of the couvre-nuque, the gorget, the rerebrace, and the braconnière and the tassets were held together in this way.

   • 1907, Albert Kinross, Davenant, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead and Company, page 92:

     […] gauntlets, visors, breastplates, heaumes, palettes and salades; with cuisses, solerets and shoes à la poulaine; with pauldrons, braconnières, tassets, loin-guards, vamplates, surtouts, and bassinets.

   • 1914, The Collection of Arms and Armor of Rutherfurd Stuyvesant, 1843-1909:

     The braconnière and tassets are, however, of somewhat later date (about 1535).

   • 1921, Dun’s International Review:

     The firm of Coda, for instance, which is carrying on this traditional occupation of Minorca, now makes chatelain vanity bags in place of braconnières, and the clumsy solleret, which was produced with excessive pains and slowness, has vanished before such things as the engine-turned gold cigarette case.

   • 1927, Arms & Armour of Archduke Eugen:

     Braconnière; tuille tassets, with six indicated lames.

   • 1950, Sales, Parke-Bernet Galleries, page 16:

     Comprising armet with roped comb, flanged slot ocularium, and perforated ventail; colletin bearing Nuremberg mark, backplate, and breastplate with braconnière and tassets;

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bʁa.kɔ.njɛʁ/

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Noun

braconnière f (plural braconnières)

1. female equivalent of braconnier
2. braconniere (armor)

Further reading

• “braconnière”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.