pauldron

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- Fully detailed Sandtrooper armor set, featuring new helmet faceplate, new left shin armor, new abdomen armor, and pauldron with white rank designation

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  1. The armor of the shoulder when it is a piece separate from that of the body and of the arm. Specifically, the elaborate defense introduced about 1400, consisting of splints, sliding one over the other or of a single piece so formed and secured by pivots that, as the arm was raised, it moved toward the neck, falling again by its own weight as the arm was lowered. The pauldron of the right shoulder was usually smaller than that of the left, to allow of freer movement of the sword-arm, and especially for passing the lance under the armpit when couched.The pauldron of the close of the fifteenth century forms an inseparable part of the articulated and elaborated suit of plate-armor. See epaulet.

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  • - Fully detailed Sandtrooper armor set, featuring new helmet faceplate, new left shin armor, new abdomen armor, and pauldron with white rank designation —  TOYSREVILs I LIKE TOYS
  • Fully detailed Sandtrooper armor set, featuring new helmet faceplate, new left shin armor, new abdomen armor, and pauldron with white rank designation. —  Action-Figure
  • The pauldron may have changed, but the helmet is still wrong. —  TheForce.Net
  • The armourer's hammer was the keener, the quicker, the less intermittent, and yet had the most variations of time and note, as he shifted the piece on his anvil, or changed breastplate for gorget, or greave for pauldron--or it might be sword for pike-head or halbert. —  St. George and St. Michael
  • The armourer's hammer was the keener, the quicker, the less intermittent, and yet had the most variations of time and note, as he shifted the piece on his anvil, or changed breastplate for gorget, or greave for pauldron -- or it might be sword for pike-head or halbert. —  St. George and St. Michael
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  1. Also pouldron, powldron, poldern, polron, paleron; from Middle English *paleron, polrynge, polrond, from Old French espalleron, a shoulder-plate, espauleron, shoulder-bone (= Spanish espaldaron, a shoulder-plate), from espalle, French épaule, the shoulder: see spaul, and cf. epaulet.
 

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