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hoguines

hoguines is the plural of hoguine.

Meaning of hoguine

Noun

hoguine (plural hoguines)

  1. (historical) 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]
    Synonyms:
    culet, garde de rein

Questions about hoguines

What is hoguines the plural of?
Hoguines is the plural of hoguine.

Words near hoguines in the dictionary

  1. hogtubs
  2. hogtying
  3. Hogue
  4. Hogues
  5. hoguine
  6. hoguines
  7. hogvine
  8. hogwaller
  9. hogwallers
  10. hogwallow
  11. hogwallows

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