tonlet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot. historical
    — 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.
  2. One of the plates which make up such a skirt. historical
    — 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.

词形变化

tonlets plural tonnelet alternative

词源

From Middle English tonlet, Old French tonnelet (French tonnelet (“high breeches; keg”)).
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