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 […]