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  • noun Plural form of solleret.

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Examples

  • At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail - gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses and sallet.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • The little athlete had removed almost all of her glass armor and its padding and sat on her rock attired only in a white chemise and a pair of sollerets with golden spurs.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • At each step Felice took, the jeweled sollerets on her feet chimed on the marble floor.

    The Golden Torc May, Julian, 1931- 1981

  • At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail - gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses and sallet.

    Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979

  • At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain mail -- gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses, and sallet.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • I, the Fool, stood there as arrogant as any knight, whilst with his noble hands the Lord of Pesaro, kneeling, made secure the greaves upon my legs, the sollerets with golden spurs, the cuissarts and the genouilleres.

    The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • His smooth breastplate, his wondrous joints with their deft protection by the disks at knee and elbow and shoulder, the beautifully flexible gauntlets and sollerets, the shirt of mail and the close-fitting greave-plates were all things of joy and of beauty in his eyes.

    Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906

  • See! they are springing from their horses, and cutting their sollerets that they may rush upon us.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • See! they are springing from their horses, and cutting their sollerets that they may rush upon us.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

  • See! they are springing from their horses, and cutting their sollerets that they may rush upon us.

    The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902

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