Brayette

Quick meaning: Brayette is a noun meaning (historical) An item of armor (mail or plate) protecting the groin.

Meaning

(historical) An item of armor (mail or plate) protecting the groin.

Example Sentences

European chain mail was rarely made after 1600 figures suits of plate armor from the Maximilian period (1500-1540) in which mail was used for brayettes or groin defenses (op. cit., figs. 65, 67, 72, 75, 91).

30071 Black Armor with Embossed White Stripes, about 1540 : Burgonet with upraising helmet-shade; gorget with pauldrons attached; breast-plate with tapul and great brayette; back-plate with loin-guard. ' Nuremberg mark.

Among the detached pieces of mail are nine hauberks, to all of which a European origin is assigned, a fine standard of mail of the late fifteenth century, and a mail brayette similar to that on the effigy of Count Otto IV. of .

The body itself is defended also by plate armour so that instead of the jupon, gambeson and hauberk-of-mail we find the cuirass now covering breast and back with the brayettes or taces which form a short petticoat or skirt of steel .

Word Forms

• brayettes

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