Citations:garde de rein


 * garde de rein


 * 1815, P. Dick, A Descriptive Catalogue of a Museum of Antiquities and Foreign Curiosities, page 19:
 * A complete Suit of Plate Armour
 * Consisting of the Helmet with rising Beaver and Gorget, the Cuirass with the Garde de Rein or Culettes, the Pouldrons or shoulder pieces, the Brassarts or vambraces for arms, the Groussets for the ...
 * 1821, Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, page 144:
 * ... with a garde de rein of several overlapping pieces to protect behind from one hip to the other, and a similar guard in front, which Pere Daniel terms tassettes, a word of German imposition, from their covering the pockets ...
 * 1894, Exhibition of Venetian Art: The New Gallery, Regent Street, 1894-5, page 95:
 * ... and backplate with small garde de rein; pauldrons, coudrés rere and vambraces; mitten gauntlets with marked fingers; high gorget; tasses reaching to the knee; and unusually large palettes, the projecting spike in the centre ...
 * 1908, Royal United Service Institution (Great Britain). Museum, Official Catalogue of the Royal United Service Museum, Whitehall, S.W., page 175:
 * Suit of Armour, Pikeman, of the 17th century, consisting of casque, gorget, breast-piece, back-piece, and garde de rein.
 * 2013, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486145334), page 56:
 * The Back-plate of blue Steel, with Culette or Garde de Rein attached.


 * gardes de rein


 * 1880, Transactions of the Berkshire Archaeological and Architectural Society, page 13:
 * The sollerets, and jambs, the cuisses, tasses, gardes de rein, and vambraces, soon were laid aside (Pl. II., 111). Long boots, leather coats, and leather gauntlets, sufficiently strong to ward off sword blows ...


 * garde des reins


 * 1786, Francis Grose, “A” Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, Illustrated by Plates Taken from the Original Armour in the Tower of London and Other Arsenals, Museums and Cabinets, page 21:
 * To the back-piece of the cuirass for the protection of the loins, was hooked on a piece of armour, called Garde des Reins, or Culettes; and the breast-piece was occasionally strengthened by an additional plate called a Plaquet.


 * gardes des reins


 * 1839, The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, page 149:
 * In several of the French historians armour called Gardes des Reins, or calottes. The hands were defended by gauntlets: we read of chanfrons worn by their nobility, these were sometimes of chain-mail, but oftener not only of gold ...