manefaire

发音

UK /ˈmeɪnfɛə/
US /ˈmeɪnfɛəɹ/

词形变化

manefaires 复数 manefaires

别名

mainfaire

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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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