Citations:arming

English citations of arming

"coat of arms"(?) (three quotes below are Drayton)

• (Can we date this quote?), Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt, in 1810, Samuel Johnson, Drayton, Warner, page 9:

  Or by the difference of their armings known,

  Or by their colours; for in ensigns there,

  Some wore the arms of their most ancient town,

  Others again their own devices bear:

• 1631, Michael Drayton, The Battaile of Agincourt... The Miseries of Queene Margarite... Nimphidia, the Court of Fayrie. The Quest of Cinthia. The Shepheard's Sirena. The Moone-Calfe. Elegies, page 63:

  Scarse had he spoke, but th' English them inclose,

  And like to Mastiues fiercely on them flew,

  Who with like courage strongly them oppose,

  When the Lord Beamont, who their Armings knew,

  Their present perill to braue Suffolke shewes ...

• 2003, James Robinson Planché, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume: From the First Century B.C. to C. 1760, Courier Corporation (→ISBN), page 13:

  Arming doublet. A loose doublet with sleeves, […] that the word "arming" was used in the sense of coat armour is apparent from the lines of Drayton: "When the Lord Beaumont, who their armings knew, Their present peril to brave Suffolk shewe." Poems, p. 63.

• 2009, Robert W. Barrett, Against All England: Regional Identity and Cheshire Writing, 1195-1656

  Helmut Nickel describes Gawain's usual arms as either argent, a canton gules or purpure, a double-headed eagle Or, armed axure (“Arthurian Armings,” p. 14 ). But he also notes the fourteenth-century custom of carrying both ...

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• 1847, William Sloane EVANS, A Grammar of British Heraldry, consisting of “Blason” and “Marshalling,” with an introduction on the rise, origin, and progress of symbols and ensigns, etc. [With plates.], page 154:

  The tincture of the headings, armings, and garnishings of the Battering Ram must be mentioned.

affixing-on of armor

• 1819, James Robinson Planché, A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: A general history of costume in Europe, page 103:

  […] two tunicles and a gambeson, each with a border of the arms of France; […] a quantity of aiguilletes and laces for arming; six bascinets; a gamboised thigh-piece, and an esquivalens of leather […]

also?

• 2009, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Will McLean, Daily Life in Chaucer's England, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 164:

  He might also wear a shirt, although a fifteenth-century set of instructions for arming, How a Man Shall Be Armed, ... Next came the innermost protective garment for the torso, variously called a doublet, aketon, gambeson, jupon, […]

• 1961, Ernest Edward Tucker, The Story of Knights and Armor:

  Now he was ready for arming . The wine and bread had cheered him a little , and he grinned at Guy . “ Go get them lined up , ” he said . “ I'll be out in a minute . ' Guy nodded , and looked at the gambeson which Mahsoor held out […]

processing of equipping (with) arms/armor(?)

• 1997, Derek Brewer, Jonathan Gibson, Derek Stanley Brewer, A Companion to the Gawain-poet, Boydell & Brewer Ltd (→ISBN), page 177:

  The most significant of these is the blazon of the pentangle on Gawain's shield. This is unique. Blazon of any kind is rarely mentioned in formal arming, and the pentangle never apart from here.