manefaire
发音
UK
/ˈmeɪnfɛə/
US
/ˈmeɪnfɛəɹ/
词形变化
manefaires
复数
manefaires
别名
mainfaire
释义与例句
n.
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1.
Protective armor for a horse's neck; a crinet or criniere.
词源
From Middle English mayndefer, maynfer, and maynefere, attested in lists of armor used by men and their horses. In the 17- and 1800s, Francis Grose, Samuel Rush Meyrick and other antiquarians took the term to denote a horse's neck armor, connecting it to mane; Harold Dillon, 17th Viscount Dillon and Charles John ffoulkes have argued that this is an error and that term referred to a kind of gauntlet, from French main de fer (literally “hand of iron”), now often spelled manifer.
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