almain rivet
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.03 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A kind of light, flexible plate armour first used in Germany around 1450, designed to be manufactured easily, especially en masse.
Example Sentences
- "Two tithing corslets furnished, ij pair of almain rivets furnished. […] John Glasse, one almain rivet. John Chapman, one almain rivet. John Hurforde, with others[,] one almain rivet."
- "This archer of the Earl of Northumberland's contingent (centre) is shown without his 'Almain rivet', displaying instead the coat supplied to men of this contingent. His hat and quiver are both of the Percy family livery colours."
- "The pikemen wore a corslet or almain rivet with a burgonet, the halberdiers and bill-men the almain rivet, or a corslet with mail-sleeves, the “shot” brigandines, coats of plate, or jacks with tippets (and sometimes sleeves), ..."
- "New in Henry's first French war were almain rivets, mass-produced South German plate body armours (see Fig. 3.3). The king himself ordered 2,000 of them in 1512 and his subjects soon began to catch up."