Citations:barbière

English citations of barbière

a piece of armor which protects the throat.

• 1879, James Robinson Planché, A Cyclopaedia of Costume Or Dictionary of Dress, Including Notices of Contemporaneous Fashions on the Continent: A general history of costume in Europe, page 102:

  [...] three Pizan collars of steel jazerant; a barbière of superior riveting of chambli;  […]

• 1982, Francis Henry Cripps-Day, The History of the Tournament:

  The references to the harness of the knights are interesting records of the early use of plate armour; we note barbières (8), trumelières (9) and brasues (10). It alludes to the The Statutes use of ventailles (11), and we […]