Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A piece of armor that protected the breast of a horse. The use of the poitrel lingered long after the other parts of the bards had been abandoned.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anc. Armor), obsolete The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See
peytrel .
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Examples
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A jeTsel or other ornament to bang about one's neck, a poitrel of a horje.
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For every stud of silver on his casque of bronze he must have fought in a pitched battle; and for each tuft of hair upon his charger’s poitrel he must have slain a foe in hand-to-hand encounter.
The Roman Traitor (Vol. 1 of 2) Henry William Herbert 1832
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