plackart

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plackart (plural plackarts)

  1. Alternative form of placard (extra plate on the lower part of a breastplate (armor))
    • 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 499:
      High plackarts with stepped or cusped borders are a unique feature of Spanish armour in the 1470s ...
    • 2012, Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition, University of Toronto Press, →ISBN, page 81:
      Most plackarts also supported a fauld, made of a various number of waist-lames, []
    • 2015, Anna Thayer, The Broken Blade: Every man has a destiny. His is to betray, Lion Fiction, →ISBN:
      The plates and plackarts snapped closely together and the straps binding them were tied. Then Fletcher brought him his pauldrons, upper cannons, ...