Talk:flaon

This also exists as a term for a part of armor, compare charnel:

• 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press, →ISBN, page 103:

  The helm is secured in place with bolts rather than a charnel, but the breastplate is distinguished by the lance-rest and flaon bolt, which on this armour is removable.

more quotations and references

• 1991, Antonio Domínguez Ortiz, Concha Herrero Carretero, José-A. Godoy, Resplendence of the Spanish Monarchy: Renaissance Tapestries and Armor from the Patrimonio Nacional, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 112:

  [image] Detail of cat. 16, showing the reinforcing breastplate, with its lance-rest, fixtures for attaching the helm, and flaon for attaching the targe. […] On the upper left side hangs a socket (flaon in Spanish) with a screw head by which the targe was attached.

• 1907, Albert Frederick Calvert, Spanish Arms and Armour: Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of Madrid, page 53:

  we have in the Royal Armoury, a Spanish tilting breast-plate (e59), thus described in the 1898 Catalogue: " […] It has also a piece of iron, which we call flaon, used as a wedge between the shield and the breastplate, and forming a resisting whole against the adversary's lance. This flaon, the only iron one we have seen, serves also to fasten the helm to the breast"[.]

• 2021 November 5, Charles John Ffoulkes, The armourer and his craft from the XIth to the XVIth century, Good Press:

  Flaon, Fr. a wedge fastened to the breast-piece which took the shock of the shield; see poire.

see also

• 1611, Randle Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues. Compiled by Randle Cotgrave:

  Flaons: m. Round planchets, or plates of mettall, readie to be stamped, or coyned.

which is modern flan:

• 1895, William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, “The” Century Dictionary: The Century dictionary, page 2252:

  flan⁴ (F. pron. [...]), n. [F., OF. flan, flon, flaon (later also flanc), a blank for coining; a particular use of flaon, a cake, tart, > E. flawn: see flawn.] A piece of metal shaped ready to form a coin, but not yet stamped by the die.

- -sche (discuss) 22:16, 5 December 2022 (UTC)