passguard

词形变化

passguards 复数 passguards

别名

pasguard passe garde passe-garde passegarde

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    An L-shaped piece of armor worn over one arm (typically the left arm), which generally kept it in a bent position and protected it during jousts.

    历史
  2. 2.

    A ridge or an additional plate on a shoulder piece, to turn the blow of a weapon away from the neck or joint of the armor.

    -Cuirass rounded and projecting

词源

From French passe-garde, used with the meaning "armor projecting up from a shoulder-piece" since a least the 1800s. It has been suggested that the application of the term (in both English and French) to neck guards is, however, an error, and that the original meaning was "elbow armor".

来源：wiktionary