paunce
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pɔːns/
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1
From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans. Doublet of paunch.
Noun
paunce (plural paunces)
- (historical) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.
- 2013, Gwilym Dodd, Henry V: New Interpretations, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 121:
- The chest of armour, explicitly stated to have belonged to Oldcastle, contained a pair of 'close bristeplattes', a steel 'paunce', chain mail and another breastplate 'cum lez wyngges', all of which had been confiscated by Sir Thomas ...
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paunce.
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Alternative forms
- pauncer, pauncher
Related terms
- paunch
Etymology 2
See pansy.
Noun
paunce (plural paunces)
- Obsolete form of pansy.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]
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Anagrams
- uncape
Middle English
Alternative forms
- pawnce, pauns, pauncs
Etymology
From Old French pance, from Latin panticem, accusative of pantex. Doublet of paunche.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpau̯ns(ə)/, /ˈpans(ə)/
Noun
paunce (plural paunces)
- paunce (piece of armour)
Descendants
- English: paunce
References
- “paunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.