braconnière
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Example Sentences
- "D, braconnière of plates sliding one over another;"
- "The body armor consisted of the plastron and dossière (breast and backplates), strapped together at the sides; the lower part of the plastron, covering the abdomen, being further protected by a reinforcement or additional plate called the braconnière, composed of three articulated plaques of steel."
- "The pieces of the couvre-nuque, the gorget, the rerebrace, and the braconnière and the tassets were held together in this way."
- "[…]gauntlets, visors, breastplates, heaumes, palettes and salades; with cuisses, solerets and shoes à la poulaine; with pauldrons, braconnières, tassets, loin-guards, vamplates, surtouts, and bassinets."
- "The braconnière and tassets are, however, of somewhat later date (about 1535)."
- "The firm of Coda, for instance, which is carrying on this traditional occupation of Minorca, now makes chatelain vanity bags in place of braconnières, and the clumsy solleret, which was produced with excessive pains and slowness, has vanished before such things as the engine-turned gold cigarette case."