alwyte
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alwyte (not comparable)
- Alternative form of alwhite
- 2012, Ewart Oakeshott, European Weapons and Armour: From the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 194:
- The other, with a 'white' back and breast (i.e., plain polished steel), but a skirt covered in blue velvet, is a near approach to the 'alwyte' harness which became universally popular a couple of decades after.
- 2012 September 25, Bismark Ansah, Princess Victoria and the Sorcerer of the Isle of Man, Dorrance Publishing, →ISBN, page 15:
- Wearing alwyte armour, the islander's knights could not defend their land as the sky over the last island to be attacked by advancing coalition forces was filled […]