neck-guard

English

Noun

neck-guard (plural neck-guards)

1. Alternative form of neck guard
   • 1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern Nations to the End of the Seventeenth Century ; with Illustrations from Contemporary Monuments. Supplement : comprising the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries, page 570:

     […] of mail beneath the tassets would be compensated by the strong steel front of the saddle. The sollerets have the usual broad toes of the period. The pauldrons have the neck-guards already noticed, which, from actual suits  […]

   • 1897, Portfolio Artistic Monographs, page 69:

     To the left shoulder-piece or pauldron one of the upright neck-guards is still fixed by rivets. The breastplate is globose, and has a central ridge called the tapul. The arms are sheathed in rigid plates, […]

   • 1995, Robert Coltman Clephan, The Mediaeval Tournament, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 83:

     The forms of the pauldrons, neck-guards, globose breast-plate, “bear-paw,” or “cow-mouth” sollerets (as they were called), tuilles, tassets, and bases all mark the period, which other historic features on the ...