croupiere
See also: croupière
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French croupière. Doublet of crupper.
Noun
croupiere (plural croupieres)
- Protective armor for a horse's buttocks.
- 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 30:
- The Croupiere or Buttock Piece was also some times formed of plates of copper, brass or iron, though often of jacked leather, when the chanfron and poitrinal were of metal.
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