Tonlet
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈtɔn.lɛt/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Tonlet is a noun meaning (historical) A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot.
Meaning
(historical) A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot.
More Meanings
- (historical) One of the plates which make up such a skirt.
Example Sentences
The steel tonlets are rigid, not overlapping and movable.
Soon after this the six or eight "tonlets" grow fewer, being continued on the lower edge by the so-called tuilles, small plates strapped to the tonlets and swinging with the movement of the legs.
Accordingly, the Greenwich armoury hurriedly prepared a somewhat more conventional suit of foot combat armour made from existing pieces but incorporating newly made symmetrical pauldrons and a tonlet.
On some the buttocks and groin are also fully encased in steel; while, on others, these same parts are protected by a tonlet, a deep steel skirt that widens downward to facilitate leg movement (see cat. 37).
Word Forms
- tonlets
- tonnelet
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tonnelet, taslet, lamboys, tuille, tippet, sabaton.
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