单词 | haute-piece |
释义 | ‖ haute-piece Obs. [F.; lit. ‘high piece’, ‘a Poldron; or the vpper part thereof’ (Cotgr.).] The shoulder-piece in plate armour; = pauldron.
c1500Melusine xxii. (E.E.T.S.) 145 Vryan..atteyned hym with his trenchaunt swerde betwix the heed & the sholders..and his hawtepyece fell of with the forsaid stroke. Ibid. xlix. 325 Thenne Geffray smote hym [the giant] with his swerd vpon the sholder, for he myght not reche his heed, and cutte the haulte piece of his harneys. |

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