Citations:piciere


 * from Middle English picer, piciere (attested in the plural, olde picers, also pic(i)eres) "breastplate for a war horse", from Old French piciere, (modern Fr. pissière?)


 * 1867, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, volumes 7-8, page 90:
 * It is difficult to determine whether the vandyked ornamentations between the various divisions of the bridle are intended to pourtray the design upon a leather collar, piciere, or breast-plate on the chest of the animal, or merely a fanciful filling up, as nothing resembling it appears upon the necks of the bronze receptacles mentioned, save a little ornamented medallion or stud (?) upon one specimen, [...]
 * 1867, The Reliquary and Illustrated Archaeologist, volumes 7-8, page 90:
 * It is difficult to determine whether the vandyked ornamentations between the various divisions of the bridle are intended to pourtray the design upon a leather collar, piciere, or breast-plate on the chest of the animal, or merely a fanciful filling up, as nothing resembling it appears upon the necks of the bronze receptacles mentioned, save a little ornamented medallion or stud (?) upon one specimen, [...]


 * 1316, the Inventory of Louis le Hutin [p. 15 ln. 1], quoted in translation in 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page=158:
 * Item a coat, bracers, hose, and shield, and chapel covered with velvet, and horse-covering with the king's [arms...] Item picieres and flanchieres of samit, having on them the king's arms, the fleur-de-lys being of Cyprus gold.}}
 * [original:] Item, picieres et flanchieres de samit des armes le roy.