solleret

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By the crescent upon it, it should be the second son of old Sir Hugh, who had a bolt through his ankle at the intaking of Romorantin, he having rushed into the fray ere his squire had time to clasp his solleret to his greave.

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  1. noun A steel shoe made of overlapping plates, forming a part of a medieval suit of armor.

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  • By the crescent upon it, it should be the second son of old Sir Hugh, who had a bolt through his ankle at the intaking of Romorantin, he having rushed into the fray ere his squire had time to clasp his solleret to his greave. —  The White Company
 

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  1. French, from Old French, diminutive of soller, shoe, from Late Latin subtēlāris (calceus), (shoegear) for the sole of the foot, from subtēl, the hollow of the foot : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin tālus, ankle; see talus1.

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  1. Also soleret; from French soleret, diminutive of Old French soler, a slipper, from sole, sole: see sole.
 

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/ˈsɑlərɛt/
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