passe garde

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passe garde (plural passe gardes)

  1. Alternative form of passguard (plate sticking up off shoulder-armor to protect the neck)
    • 1872, Edward Lewes Cutts, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages, page 452:
      The horizontal bands of armour called taces, depending from the corslet [] sometimes by the addition of a passe garde — a kind of high collar which protected the neck  []
    • 1883, The Archaeological Journal, page 309:
      They are all bare-headed, and wear ruffs round the throat. [] A.D. 1532, the passe gardes are of large size, and stand up from the pauldrons like  []
    • 1914, Thoroton Society, Transactions of the Thoroton Society of Nottinghamshire:
      A narrow mail collar defends the knight's throat. [] while the passe garde on the left shoulder is higher, so as to protect the neck from a sweeping  []