paunce
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans. Doublet of paunch.
Noun edit
paunce (plural paunces)
- (historical) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.
- 2013, Gwilym Dodd, Henry V: New Interpretations, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 121:
- The chest of armour, explicitly stated to have belonged to Oldcastle, contained a pair of 'close bristeplattes', a steel 'paunce', chain mail and another breastplate 'cum lez wyngges', all of which had been confiscated by Sir Thomas ...
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paunce.
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Etymology 2 edit
See pansy.
Noun edit
paunce (plural paunces)
- Obsolete form of pansy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]
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Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old French pance, from Latin panticem, accusative of pantex. Doublet of paunche.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
paunce (plural paunces)
- paunce (piece of armour)
Descendants edit
- English: paunce
References edit
- “paunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.