pavise

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The shield itself or pavise was large, made of wood covered with skin, and surrounded with a broad rim of iron He looked gracefully round, first lowering his lance in front of the king's pavilion, and afterwards to the fair dames who crowded the galleries on each side.

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  1. A shield of large size, four or five feet long and broad enough to cover the whole person, used especially in sieges. In the quotation the word is used of a broad-brimmed hat. One he henttis a hode of scharlette fulle riche, A pavys pillione hatt, that pighte was fulle faire With perry of the oryent, and precyous stones. Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), l. 3461.
  2. Same as pavesade. Owre men had bynne in great daunger [from Indian arrows] if they had not byn defended by the cages or pauisses of the shyppes and their targettes. R. Eden, tr. of Peter Martyr (First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 158).
  3. To provide with large shields. They had moche adoo, sauynge they were well pauessed, for they on the walles caste downe stoones, and hurt many. Berners, tr. of Froissart's Chron., II. xc.

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  • The shield itself or pavise was large, made of wood covered with skin, and surrounded with a broad rim of iron He looked gracefully round, first lowering his lance in front of the king's pavilion, and afterwards to the fair dames who crowded the galleries on each side. —  Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • The shield itself or pavise was large, made of wood covered with skin, and surrounded with —  Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2)
  • Moreover, at the evening's dance, when Margaret and Suffolk, Ferry and Yolande stood up for a stately pavise together, Sigismund came to —  Two Penniless Princesses
  • The young bride and bridegroom had first to perform a stately pavise before the whole assembly in the centre of the floor, in which, poor young things, they acquitted themselves much as if they were in the dancing - master's hands. —  Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
  • "Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle. —  The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
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  1. Early modern English also pavais, pavice, pavisse, pavish, palveise, from Middle English pavise, pavese, pavesse, pavys, from Old French *paveis, pavois, pavesche = Spanish paves = Portuguese pavez = Italian pavese, pavesce, from Middle Latin pavensis, a large shield; origin uncertain. The form suggests a local origin, perhaps, like Old French Pavois, Pavious, from Pavia, a city in Italy.
  2. from pavise, n.
 

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