pauncher
English edit
Noun edit
pauncher (plural paunchers)
- Alternative form of paunce (“abdomen armor”)
- 1921, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Great Britain: Royal Historical Society:
- […] a bascinet and a steel cap with visors, breastplates, a pauncher, greaves, and vambraces and rearbraces. The owner's piety is suggested by an image of the Blessed Mary in alabaster and another of St. John the Baptist.
- 2017, Peter Lorge, Warfare in China to 1600, Routledge, →ISBN:
- […] and lively renditions of this armor, with breast plaques, and lamellar shoulder guards, pauncher or midriff guard, […]
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Etymology edit
From Old French panchiere, variant of panciere; equivalent to paunce + -er. Compare German Panzer.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
pauncher (plural paunchers) (rare)
References edit
- “pauncere, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.