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champfrein

champfrein 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 champfrein

pluralchampfreins

Questions about champfrein

What is champfrein the alternative form of?
Champfrein is the alternative form of chamfron.

Words near champfrein in the dictionary

  1. champertors
  2. champertous
  3. champerty
  4. champes
  5. champeta
  6. champfrein
  7. champfreins
  8. Champhai
  9. champian
  10. champians
  11. Champie

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Adapted from Wiktionary: champfrein (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.

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