plackart

plackart

English

Noun

plackart (plural plackarts)

1. Alternative form of placard (“extra plate on the lower part of a breastplate (armor)”)
   • 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press (→ISBN), page 499:

     High plackarts with stepped or cusped borders are a unique feature of Spanish armour in the 1470s ...

   • 2012, Kelly Robert DeVries, Robert Douglas Smith, Medieval Military Technology, Second Edition, University of Toronto Press (→ISBN), page 81:

     Most plackarts also supported a fauld, made of a various number of waist-lames, […]

   • 2015, Anna Thayer, The Broken Blade: Every man has a destiny. His is to betray, Lion Fiction (→ISBN)

     The plates and plackarts snapped closely together and the straps binding them were tied. Then Fletcher brought him his pauldrons, upper cannons, ...