coudière

English

Noun

coudière (plural coudières)

1. Alternative form of coudiere
   • 1881, Josiah Conder, “The History of Japanese Costume: II—Armour”, in Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan, volume IX, Yokohama: R. Meiklejohn and Company, page 273:

     At the point of the elbow is a circular metal plate forming a kind of coudière and called the Hiji-gane.

   • 1884 November 25, Cecil T. Davis, “The Monumental Brasses of Herefordshire and Worcestershire”, in Transactions, Excursions and Reports. 1884-85., Birmingham, published 1887, page 70:

     The shoulders are protected by épaulières, which usually consist of three plates, but only two are shown here, whilst the arms are guarded by vambraces and brassarts, connected at the elbows by a hinge; to cover the hinge a coudière is added; on this figure it is rounded off.

   • 1898, J Starkie Gardner, Armour in England from the Earliest Times to the Seventeenth Century, page 31:

     The brassards, including the large butterfly-shaped coudière, appear from beneath the widely open sleeves of mail.

   • 1899, Cecil T Davis, The Monumental Brasses of Gloucestershire, London: Phillimore & Co., page 63:

     The mode of fastening the coudière of the right arm is distinctly visible: (57) a staple from the under armour comes through the coudière and by means of a spring-pin, which is thrust through the staple, this extra defence was fixed.

   • 1907, Herbert W Macklin, The Brasses of England, page 150:

     Otherwise mail entirely disappears, except sometimes at the joint of the elbow, which is further protected by a fan-shaped coudière or a roundel, and roundels or oblong palettes are placed before the armpits.

   • 1909, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, page 163:

     The half-noble of the same date has a rough indication of a coudière, with mail brassarts or hauberk sleeve, and a gauntlet.

   • 1991, Geraldine McCaughrean, “Out of the Pit”, in Vainglory, London: Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 108:

     To the blue cords fastening the bent coudière around his elbow were added knotty strings of dark red.

French

Etymology

From coude (“elbow”).

Noun

coudière f (plural coudières)

1. elbow guard, elbow pad

   Synonym: protège-coude

Coordinate terms

• genouillère

Further reading

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