epauliereとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French épaulière.

発音

• IPA: /ˌeɪ.poʊlˈjɛəɹ/

名詞

epauliere (plural epaulieres)

1. The part of a suit of armor covering the shoulder; a shoulder plate.
   • 2004, Kevin Grace, Tom White, Cincinnati Cemeteries: The Queen City Underground, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 142:

     […] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.

等位語

• spaulder, pauldron, espauliere

参考

• epaulette