pauldron

American  

[pawl-druhn] / ˈpɔl drən /

noun

Armor.

1. a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.

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pauldron British  

/ ˈpɔːldrən /

noun

1. either of two metal plates worn with armour to protect the shoulders

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Etymology

Origin of pauldron

1400–50; earlier paleron, poleron, late Middle English polron, pollerons (plural) < Middle French espalleron shoulder. See epaulet

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• spaulder vs. pauldron

Example Sentences

Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace.

From Time Magazine Archive

Overplate, ō′vėr-plāt, n. in armour, a large pauldron protecting the shoulder, or a cubiti�re protecting the elbow.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various

His sword was cut cleanly in two, his left pauldron was cleanly cleaved, and a great numbness afflicted his left shoulder.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.

The rohorse emitted several realistic whinnies, backed out of its "stall", trotted smartly over to his side, and nuzzled his right pauldron.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.