peytrel

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪ.tɹəl/

Noun

peytrel (plural peytrels)

1. Alternative form of poitrel
   • 1904, British Museum. Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography, A Guide to the Antiquities of the Bronze Age: In the Department of British and Mediæval Antiquities, page 149:

     Gold Ornament Room, Case K. At the back of the Case is a piece of gold armour (plate x) formerly known as the Mold corslet, but now seen to be a peytrel (French, poitrail) or brunt for a pony. It is mounted on a copper […]

   • 1911, An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire: II - County of Flint, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, page 65:

     The following is the description of the peytrel given in the British Museum Guide to Antiquities of the Bronze Age, page 150——“It is mounted [in its case] on a copper plate as originally worn, fragments of the lining being shown […]

   • 2021, Marc C Watson, The Baltic Pilgrimage, Page Publishing Inc, →ISBN:

     The pieces of plate armor that clad a demigriffin were first the peytrel, which covered the chest to shoulders to its midsection. The peytrel flared outward, steeply, with three Norlock and Nor'ock skulls gilded in gold fastened to the ...

Further reading

• “peytrel”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.