pasguard

pasguard

English

Noun

pasguard (plural pasguards)

1. Alternative form of passguard (“L-shaped elbow armor”)
   • 1898, The Archaeological Journal, page 313:

     The pasguard is also linched on a pin standing out of the elbow-piece, and the grandguard and pasguard are ornamented with the same designs […]

   • 1911, Henry Charles Howard Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire, Hedley Peek, Frederick George Aflalo, The Encyclopaedia of Sport & Games, page 259:

     […] On the left elbow also was fixed a pin, to which by a linch-pin could be fixed a large plate protecting the elbow and parts of the upper and fore arm. This was the real pasguard, though in modern times the name has erroneously been transferred to the upright plates springing from the pauldrons or shoulder armour, and to a certain extent protecting the sides of the neck. Below this pasguard again was worn over the left gauntlet a large manifer, or main de fer.

   • 1959, Claude Blair, European Armour, Circa 1066 to Circa 1700

     (ii) Pasguard (283). Derived from the old guard of the vambrace. A large wing-like reinforce for the left elbow, attached by a staple and pivot-hook. Some 19th-century writers mistakenly applied this term to the haute-piece.

   • 1995, Alan Williams, Anthony De Reuck, The Royal Armoury at Greenwich, 1515-1649: A History of Its Technology

     Specimen Number 6 This is the pasguard (extra reinforcing piece for the left arm for use in the tilt) from an armour made for Henry VIII about 1540 and now in Windsor Castle. The cross - section shows a mixture of ferrite and […]

   • 2017, Donald J. La Rocca, How to Read European Armor, Metropolitan Museum of Art (→ISBN), page 72 (has an image):

     To reinforce the left arm from the shoulder to the wrist, a large L-shaped plate called a pasguard, or soprabracciale, is screwed to the threaded socket in the left elbow of the vambrace (fig. 81). The pasguard overlaps the grandguard at the shoulder and keeps the left arm in a bent position. […] the combination of grandguard, pasguard and manifer protected the rider's left side, […]

     [image; caption:] Fig. 81. Pasguard (soprabracciale) from the Dos Aguas garniture (27.159.4)