espauliere

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Same as épaulière.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A defense for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the 15th century; -- the origin of the modern epaulette.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A defence for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, used in the fifteenth century; the origin of the modern epaulette.