Word.ws English Dictionary

chamfrain

chamfrain is the alternative form of chamfron.

Meaning of chamfron

Noun

chamfron (plural chamfrons)

  1. Protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears.
    • The defensive armor with which the horses of the ancient knights or men at arms were covered, or, to use the language of the time, barded, consisted of the following pieces made either of metal or jacked leather, the Chamfron, Chamfrein or Shaffron, the Criniere or Main Facre, the Poitrenal...1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29

Forms of chamfrain

pluralchamfrains

Questions about chamfrain

What is chamfrain the alternative form of?
Chamfrain is the alternative form of chamfron.

Words near chamfrain in the dictionary

  1. chamferers
  2. chamfering
  3. chamferings
  4. chamferless
  5. chamfers
  6. chamfrain
  7. chamfrains
  8. chamfrein
  9. chamfreins
  10. chamfret
  11. chamfrets

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: chamfrain (page history and authors); chamfron (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “chamfrain.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/chamfrain. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.