manefaire

名词 n.
英 /ˈmeɪnfɛə/    美 /ˈmeɪnfɛəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Protective armor for a horse's neck; a crinet or criniere.
    — The Criniere or Manefaire consisted of a number of small plates, generally about twelve, hooked together and to the chanfron, so as to be moveable, their use was to guard the neck of the horse from the stroke of a cutting sword.

词形变化

manefaires plural mainfaire alternative

词源

From Middle English mayndefer, maynfer, and maynefere, attested in lists of armor used by men and their horses. In the 17- and 1800s, Francis Grose, Samuel Rush Meyrick and other antiquarians took the term to denote a horse's neck armor, connecting it to mane; Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon and Charles John ffoulkes have argued that this is an error and that term referred to a kind of gauntlet, from French main de fer (literally “hand of iron”), now often spelled manifer.
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