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語源 1

From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans. Doublet of paunch.

名詞

paunce (複数形 paunces)

1. (historical) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.
   • 2013, Gwilym Dodd, Henry V: New Interpretations, Boydell & Brewer Ltd (→ISBN), page 121:

     The chest of armour, explicitly stated to have belonged to Oldcastle, contained a pair of 'close bristeplattes', a steel 'paunce', chain mail and another breastplate 'cum lez wyngges', all of which had been confiscated by Sir Thomas ...

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paunce.

別の表記

• pauncer, pauncher

関連する語

• paunch

語源 2

See pansy.

名詞

paunce (複数形 paunces)

1. Obsolete form of pansy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book III, canto 1:

     She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]