hoguine
hoguine noun: an item of armor worn in the 16th century, consisting of overlapping lames to protect the buttocks.
Noun
hoguine (plural hoguines)
- An item of armor worn in the 16th century, consisting of overlapping lames to protect the buttocks.
- Some polished corslets, varnished backs and breasts, cleaned the headpieces, mail-coats, brigandines, salads, helmets, morions, jacks, gushets, gorgets, hoguines, brassars, and cuissars, corslets, haubergeons, shields, bucklers, targets, greaves, gauntlets, and spurs. Others made ready bows...1888, François Rabelais, The Sequel to Pantagruel: Being Books 3-5 Gargantua and the Heroic Deeds of Pantagruel [translated by T. Urquhart]
- The lower part of the body is protected in front by the taces and behind by the hoguine (fig. 3). […] Those broad lames [of the taces[ have on the sinister side half-hinges corresponding to half-hinges on the sinister sides of the hoguine.1912, The Archaeological Journal, page 79
- Synonyms:
- culet, garde de rein
Examples of hoguine in a sentence
- It is the sixth specimen retaining the hoguine.1925, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), Annual Report of the Trustees, page 22:
- 80 Backplate, Hoguine, and Sleeves German, ca. 1525 Steel, etched and partly gilt; 27 x 18 in. (68.6 x 45.7 cm.) (Backplate and hoguine) Gift of Bashford Dean. 1924 (24.179); (sleeves) Mrs.1987, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), The Renaissance in the North, Metropolitan Museum of Art, →ISBN, page 114:
Synonyms of hoguine
Forms of hoguine
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Origin of hoguine
From French hoguine (or a Middle or Old French predecessor), which by the mid-1600s denoted a culet. In earlier French texts the term denoted armor for the arms, thighs and/or lower legs; compare the Scots borrowing hogingis (1541), which the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue defines as "pieces of armour covering the arms, thighs and legs". Of uncertain origin; compare Old French hoguette (“small barrel”), hoguinele, and French hoguiner (“annoy, torment, molest; thwart”); the FEW connects hoguine, hoguiner and houguette to Old Norse haugr (“hill”), but this is unconvincing from a semantic point of view.
Questions about hoguine
- What does hoguine mean?
- Hoguine means an item of armor worn in the 16th century, consisting of overlapping lames to protect the buttocks.
- How do you use hoguine in a sentence?
- It is the sixth specimen retaining the hoguine.
- What part of speech is hoguine?
- Hoguine is a noun.
- What is the plural of hoguine?
- The plural of hoguine is hoguines.
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