crinet
English edit
Etymology edit
Probably from Middle French crin (“hair”) + -et.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
crinet (plural crinets)
- (obsolete, falconry) Each of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.
- 1792, William Augustus Osbaldiston, The British Sportsman, page 379:
- She has a blue beak, but the seer thereof, and legs, are yellow; the crinets or little feathers under the eye are very black; […]
- (historical) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.
- Synonym: criniere
- 1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 555:
- His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.