Citations:manicle

English citations of manicle

glove/gauntlet

2000, Lancelot of the Lake, Oxford University Press, USA, →ISBN, page 429:
[Footnotes:] impossible: Gawain clearly considers his pledge to be as binding as an oath.
gauntlets: strictly speaking, manicles would in this case be chainmail mittens.
2007 06, E. H. Ruck, An Index of Themes and Motifs in Twelfth-Century French Arthurian Poetry, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 157:
The sergents, in place of the hauberk, wore a smaller hauberk called a haubergeon without manicles - the attached mail glove - an iron cap in place of the helmet, and nail leggings without foot-protectors (see Contanine, p.69).

bracelet i.e. bracer

2014 February 25, Jean-Denis G.G. Lepage, Medieval Armies and Weapons in Western Europe: An Illustrated History, McFarland, →ISBN, page 113:
The archer's lower left arm was often protected against the blow of the string by a piece of leather or a metal bracelet (a manicle), and his right hand was often protected by a leather glove. The crossbow originated in the East.

manacle?

2014 February 7, James Everett Kibler, Jr., David Moltke-Hansen, William Gilmore Simms's Selected Reviews on Literature and Civilization, Univ of South Carolina Press, →ISBN:
One implication of “deliverance” is release from the bondage of the mind, nicely summed up by William Blake's “mindforg'd manicles” (102). When the mind is unaware of its enslavement, emancipation is impossible.

(including quotations of Old French texts in English texts)

1860, John Hewitt, Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: The fourteenth century, page 135:
In the Inventory of Louis Hutin, in 1316, occur: “Un haubergon d'acier à manicles: Item, ij. autres haubergons de Lombardie.” The manicles probably meant attached gloves.
- 1910, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Proceedings, page 82:
  It is difficult to say what is meant by manicles. Hewitt thinks that they were probably attached gloves.
1927, The Johns Hopkins Studies in Romance Literatures and Languages:
MANICLES. s. m. pl. The meaning of manicles may be bracelet as Laborde maintains. The word occurs at the end of a description of a lady's jupe, q. v. (8): (1153-88), Part., 7465: Si brac sont fors par les manicles […]