Citations:piciere

English citations of piciere

from Middle English picer, piciere (attested in the plural, olde picers, also pic(i)eres) "breastplate for a war horse", from Old French piciere, (modern Fr. pissière?)

• 1849, The United Service Magazine, page 37:

  Beneath this was the poitrail, piciere, potrinail or breast plate; not as now a mere strap, but a broad plate of steel or leather fashioned to the breast and shoulders of the horse, and not unfrequently rising high up before the saddle, […]

• 1857, British Archaeological Association, Journal of the British Archaeological Association, page 132:

  The chest of the horse would seem to be protected with a breastplate, or sort of piciere, consisting of several large annular bosses, with a festoon of oval […]

• 1867, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, volumes 7-8, page 90:

  […] It is difficult to determine whether the vandyked ornamentations between the various divisions of the bridle are intended to pourtray the design upon a leather collar, piciere, or breast-plate on the chest of the animal, or merely a fanciful filling up, as nothing resembling it appears upon the necks of the bronze receptacles mentioned, save a little ornamented medallion or stud (?) upon one specimen, [...]

  • 1867, The Reliquary: depository for precious relics, legendary, biographical, and historical, page 89:

    The chest of the horse would seem to be protected with a breast-plate, or sort of piciere, consisting of […]

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Middle English citations of piciere

• 1316, the Inventory of Louis le Hutin [p. 15 ln. 1], quoted in translation in 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page=158:

  Item a coat, bracers, hose, and shield, and chapel covered with velvet, and horse-covering with the king's [arms...] Item picieres and flanchieres of samit , having on them the king's arms, the fleur-de-lys being of Cyprus gold.}}

  [original:] Item, picieres et flanchieres de samit des armes le roy.