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Chamfron

noun
(Written also champfrain and chamfrain)
1.
Medieval plate armor to protect a horse's head.  Synonyms: chanfron, front-stall, frontstall, testiere.






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... the noble beast was in sooth worthy of the steed which bore him. Both were caparisoned in the fullest trappings of feudal war. The arblast, the mangonel, the demiculverin, and the cuissart of the period, glittered upon the neck and chest of the war-steed; while the rider, with chamfron and catapult, with ban and arriere-ban, morion and tumbrel, battle-axe and rifflard, and the other appurtenances of ancient chivalry, rode stately on his steel-clad charger, himself a tower of steel. This mighty horseman was carried by his ...
— Burlesques • William Makepeace Thackeray



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