polron

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊl.ɹən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊl.ɹən/

Noun

polron (plural polrons)

1. Obsolete form of pauldron.
   • 1612, Thomas North (translator, of Plutarch), The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, Etc, page 602:

     […] & to rent their polrons from their shoulders. Whilest they were thus tearing each other, their horses ran from thē, and they fell to the ground  […]

Further reading

• “polron”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.