Citations:alwite

English citations of alwite

Noun

• 1931, Francis M[ichael] Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, “Index and Glossary”, in A Short History of Costume & Armour, Chiefly in England, volumes I (1066–1485), Benjamin Blom, Inc., published 1968, →LCCN, page 81, column 1:

  Cuirass—Armour for the trunk—back and breast—in alwite or cuirbouly, 46, 47, 54, 62, 64;

Adjective

1. Alternative form of alwhite
   • 2003, Stephen Friar, The Sutton Companion to Castles, History PressLtd:

     A full harness of alwite armour was tailored for a particular client and was therefore enormously expensive. The finest harnesses were imported from Italy (notably from the Missaglia workshop in Milan), and […]

   • 2020, Ewelina Imiołczyk, et al., An Armour from a finery?—a late medieval couter from Ogrodzieniec Castle [...], in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, volume 12, article number 61:

     In general terms, among various armour styles, the Ogrodzieniec couter seems to best match the German “alwite” style from the first half of the fifteenth century […]

     Grabarczyk T (1992) Występowanie i zastosowanie zbroi płytowej białej w drugiej połowie XV w. (Occurrence and use of alwite plate armour in the second half of the 15th c.). Acta Universitatis Lodziensis. Folia Historica 50: 77–92