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puldron

puldron is the alternative form of pauldron.

Meaning of pauldron

Noun

pauldron (plural pauldrons)

  1. (historical) A component of plate armor that protects the shoulder, generally covering more than a spaulder, also protecting the armpit and overlapping with other armor over the upper chest and back.
    • Upon the espaulieres are placed pauldrons, also ridged, with the edges turned up, so as to form the prototypes of pass-guards.1834, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to the Eighteenth Century

Forms of puldron

pluralpuldrons

Questions about puldron

What is puldron the alternative form of?
Puldron is the alternative form of pauldron.

Words near puldron in the dictionary

  1. pulchritudes
  2. pulchritudinous
  3. pulchritudinously
  4. pulchronomics
  5. pulchrous
  6. puldron
  7. puldrons
  8. pule
  9. Pulecat
  10. puled
  11. puleez

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Adapted from Wiktionary: puldron (page history and authors); pauldron (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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