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legharness

legharness noun: leg armor.

Noun

legharness (countable and uncountable, plural legharnesses)

  1. Leg armor.
    • Right legharness and sabaton of an armour made for Charles VI of France as Dauphin.[…]Right legharness and sabaton of an armour in the manner of Jörg Seusenhofer of Innsbruck, dated 1549.1958, Claude Blair, European Armour, circa 1066 to circa 1700, pages 214 and 216
    • We have little pictorial evidence which can be dated reliably before 1320 of the existence of greaves like this, but there is an item in an inventory I have quoted before, of the arms and effects of Raoul de Nesle, which shows that they were in fact in use before 1302: “Item, ii furbished...1960, R[onald] Ewart Oakeshott, The Archaeology of Weapons: Arms and Armor from Prehistory to the Age of Chivalry, page 285

Forms of legharness

plurallegharnesses

Origin of legharness

From Middle English legharneis; equivalent to leg + harness.

Questions about legharness

What does legharness mean?
Legharness means leg armor.
What part of speech is legharness?
Legharness is a noun.
What is the plural of legharness?
The plural of legharness is legharnesses.

Words near legharness in the dictionary

  1. Leggott
  2. Leggour
  3. leggy
  4. leghaemoglobin
  5. leghaemoglobins
  6. legharness
  7. legharnesses
  8. leghemoglobin
  9. leghemoglobins
  10. leghold
  11. legholds

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