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English
Etymology
From French braconnière, from Middle French braconniere, bragonniere, from Old Italian braconi, from braca.
Pronunciation
Noun
braconniere (plural braconnieres)
- A skirt or apron of mail or lamellar armor, worn with plate armor, to defend the stomach, groin, and upper thighs.
1877, Auguste Demmin, An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, London: G. Bell & sons, page 185:Danish warrior of the fourteenth century, whose armour is curious because of the braconniere or apron and loinguards in trellised work which partly cover the mailed hauberk.
2012, Kenneth Bulmer, The Key to Venudine: Keys to the Dimensions, Gateway, →ISBN:The true blade Peaceful snouted up and seared through the first knight's mail deep into his groin. […] The man collapsed in a clattering uproar of metal clashing against metal. Trouble with a full suit of plate, even today and as far as armorers like Master Gyron had gone, was that betraying section of mail braconniere.
2018, Philip Nowlan, The Prince of Mars Returns, Jovian Press, →ISBN:Underneath was a broad girdle of heavy leather and metal plates, from which hung thigh guards and a kind of braconniere, a kilt of chain mail.
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Further reading
- S.R. Meyrick (1842) 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 145: “BRACONNIERE. A petticoat of overlapping lames of steel, worn in the time of Henry VIII.”