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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(historical) An item of armor worn in the 16th century, consisting of overlapping lames to protect the buttocks..
Some polished corslets, varnished backs and breasts, cleaned the headpieces, mail-coats, brigandines, salads, helmets, morions, jacks, gushets, gorgets, hoguines, brassars, and cuissars, corslets, haubergeons, shields, bucklers, targets, greaves, gauntlets, and spurs. Others made ready bows, slings, crossbows, pellets, catapults, migrains or fire-balls, firebrands,
The lower part of the body is protected in front by the taces and behind by the hoguine (fig. 3). […] Those broad lames [of the taces[ have on the sinister side half-hinges corresponding to half-hinges on the sinister sides of the hoguine.
Gifts include, from the Curator, state halberds and a back-plate, engraved and gilded, probably from the atelier of Seusenhofer; this belonged to one of the Princes Radzivil and remained in the possession of the family until recently. It is the sixth specimen retaining the hoguine.
80 Backplate, Hoguine, and Sleeves German, ca. 1525 Steel, etched and partly gilt; 27 x 18 in. (68.6 x 45.7 cm.) (Backplate and hoguine) Gift of Bashford Dean. 1924 (24.179); (sleeves) Mrs. Stephen V. Harkness Fund, 1926 (26.188.12)[…]
Use hoguine when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Hoguine means (historical) An item of armor worn in the 16th century, consisting of overlapping lames to protect the buttocks..
Common synonyms include culet, garde de rein.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Some polished corslets, varnished backs and breasts, cleaned the headpieces, mail-coats, brigandines, salads, helmets, morions, jacks, gushets, gorgets, hoguines, brassars, and cuissars, corslets, haubergeons, shields, bucklers, targets, greaves, gauntlets, and spurs. Others made ready bows, slings, crossbows, pellets, catapults, migrains or fire-balls, firebrands,
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