passe-garde

passe-garde

English

Noun

passe-garde (plural passe-gardes)

1. Alternative form of passegarde
   • 1899, Archaeologia Aeliana, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 245:

     Passe-gardes, generally applied to 'Maximilian' armour  […] The Beauchamp brass figure at Warwick (1439) shows the passe-garde, but the general character of the armor indicates a later date of make.

   • 2021, Charles Henry Ashdown, British and Foreign Arms & Armour, Good Press

     In this ridging for neck defence occurred the first idea of passe-gardes or pike-guards, an innovation which in different forms was in vogue during the  […]

     […] The pauldron and its passe-garde or pike-guard is well shown upon a suit of […]