Citations:mainfere


 * gauntlet; see manifer


 * 1898, John Starkie Gardner, Armour in England: From the Earliest Times to the Reign of James the First, page 51:
 * The bridle-hand wears the mainfere (main-de-fer), while the right hand grasping the spear is gauntleted. The horse armour, though so boldly embossed, is of earlier date, not later than Henry VII.
 * [ 1889, The Archaeological Journal, page 129:
 * The Mainfere and Gantlett are of course the defences of the left and right hands, the Mainfere as explained by the late Albert Way being the main de fer or bridle gauntlet. The Maineguarde we may reasonably suppose to be the large detached piece of armour engraved like the suit, with the Ragged Staff, and covering the front of the body. ]
 * 2013, R. Coltman Clephan, The Medieval Tournament, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486148045)
 * The right hand is without a gauntlet; the arm bears the poldermiton or épaule de mouton, stamped with the Augsburg guild badge; and on the bridle forearm and hand is the stiff and heavy mainfere, the jousting gauntlet.
 * [ 2019, Charles John Ffoulkes, Armour & Weapons, Good Press
 * In the Tower Inventory of 1697 appears the entry, &#39;One Armour cap-a-pe Engraven with a Ragged Staffe, made for ye Earle of Leisester, a Mainfere, Passguard and Maineguard and Gantlett.&#39; Now it is hardly reasonable to suppose that this ... ]


 * horse's neck armor, see manefaire, mainfaire


 * 1843, " "Craven, Sporting Review: A Monthly Chronicle of the Turf, the Chase, and Rural Sports in All Their Varieties, page 344:
 * ... variously embroidered or made up of rich stuffs; but there was always beneath the cloth a surface of chain mail or plates of boiled leather or of iron, a mainfere for the neck, and a poitrail, or patrel, for the breastplate.