pauldron

/pawl-druhn/US // ˈpɔl drən //UK // (ˈpɔːldrən) //

梭罗,梭伦,梭子鱼,梭鱼

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
Armor.
- : 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.

The term Bufe is sometimes wrongly used for the upright shoulder-guards on the pauldron.
To the left shoulder-piece or pauldron one of the upright neck-guards is still fixed by rivets.
Pauldron, pawl′dron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.
The left arm being defended by the target has no espalier or pauldron, but only coude, vambraces, and gauntlets.
His sword was cut cleanly in two, his left pauldron was cleanly cleaved, and a great numbness afflicted his left shoulder.