browbandとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

brow +‎ band

名詞

browband (複数形 browbands)

1. Part of a horse's bridle that runs from just under one ear, across the forehead, to just under the other ear, preventing the bridle from sliding down.
2. A band of fur of a contrasting colour on an animal's brow.

   Diana monkeys are generally black or dark grey, but have a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff and beard.

3. A band of metal, part of a (person's) helmet or crown, which covers the brow.
   • 2009, Graham Summer, Raffaele D'Amato, Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, Frontline Books (→ISBN), page 111:

     Helmet of Buggenum-Montefortino type, from Anatolia, end of the first century AD […] The browband — riveted to the dome on each side — was part of its reinforcing structure, protecting the legionary from direct blows ...

   • 2012, Robert K. Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle: Book One of the Majipoor Cycle, Penguin (→ISBN)

     Of course it was nothing to compare with the authentic crown, with its inlays and chasings of seven different precious metals, its finials of rare gems, its three gleaming diniaba-stones mounted on the browband.