croupiere

See also: croupière

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupière. Doublet of crupper.

Noun

croupiere (plural croupieres)

1. Protective armor for a horse's buttocks.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 30:

     The Croupiere or Buttock Piece was also some times formed of plates of copper, brass or iron, though often of jacked leather, when the chanfron and poitrinal were of metal.