Definitions for pauldrons

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pauldrons paul·dron

Spelling: [pawl-druh n]

IPA: /ˈpɔl drən/

Pauldrons is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 576 anagrams from letters in pauldrons (adlnoprsu).

Definitions for pauldrons

noun

1. a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.

Origin of pauldrons

1400-50; earlier paleron, poleron, late Middle English polron, pollerons (plural) Middle French espalleron shoulder. See epaulet

Examples for pauldrons

The left arm being defended by the target has no espalier or pauldron, but only coude, vambraces, and gauntlets.

To the left shoulder-piece or pauldron one of the upright neck-guards is still fixed by rivets.

The term Bufe is sometimes wrongly used for the upright shoulder-guards on the pauldron.

pauldron, pawl′dron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.