Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A piece of armor that protected the breast of a horse. The use of the poitrel lingered long after the other parts of the bards had been abandoned.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Anc. Armor), obsolete The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See peytrel.
Examples
“A jeTsel or other ornament to bang about one's neck, a poitrel of a horje.”
“For every stud of silver on his casque of bronze he must have fought in a pitched battle; and for each tuft of hair upon his charger’s poitrel he must have slain a foe in hand-to-hand encounter.”
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phrontistery - p
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pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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