targe

• Everyone had bow and quiver, sword and knife and targe or buckler, you didn't go outdoors without, any more than you'd walk out naked. —  Map.html
• She wears a hat large as a targe or buckler, brings the artillery of her eyes to bear on the young Squire, and jokes him about his sweetheart. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
• We see the bold, well-favoured countenance of the Wife of Bath beneath her hat, as "broad as a buckler or a targe"; and the horse of the Clerk, "as lean as is a rake," tells tales of his master's cheer. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
• Sigurd Swinehead came first and had a red targe, but in his other hand he held a cutlass. —  The story of Burnt Njal From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga
• The targe is very handsome indeed, studded with ornaments of silver, chiefly emblematic, chosen with much taste of device and happily executed. —  The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford

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