Talk:braconniere

Also erroneously applied to a brassard (armor for the arm):

• 1825, Thomas Dudley Fosbroke, Encyclopaedia of Antiquities, and Elements of Archaeology, Classical and Mediaeval: In Two Volumes, page 793:

  The armour of the cross-bowmen at this period consisted of scull-caps, plate on the legs and arms, and jackets […] held on by laces; elbow-pieces; Brassarts or Braconnieres, reaching only half way up from the elbow; Vambraces, or Bracers, for the lower arm  […]

- -sche (discuss) 08:08, 30 December 2021 (UTC)