Citations:pisane


 * 1920, Select Early English Poems
 * He lapped his legs in iron to the lower bones ; With pisane 2 and with pauncer,8 polish &#39;d full bright ; With braces of burnish&#39;d steel, closely braided with rings ; With plates buckled behind, the body to ward ; 115 With a well-fitting ...
 * 2021, Ebe McCabe, My Mccabe History and the Greater World, iUniverse (ISBN 9781663227690)
 * Their other armor was neck and shoulder chain mail (pisanes) over chain-mail shirts (habergeons) over a heavy, loose-fitting multi-layered, quilted cloth coat (gambeson) that also provided armor-like protection.
 * 2000, Katharine Simms, From Kings to Warlords: The Changing Political Structure of Gaelic Ireland in the Later Middle Ages, Boydell & Brewer Ltd (ISBN 9780851157849), page 125:
 * ... description of their lightweight armour and long spears . The galloglass who fought on foot were similarly equipped with round helmets of iron and collar - pieces or pisanes of mail worn over a mail - tunic or padded leather jack.
 * 2001, R. F. Foster, Robert Fitzroy Foster, The Oxford History of Ireland, Oxford University Press, USA (ISBN 9780192802026), page 64:
 * ... as the barons began to follow Gerald of Wales&#39;s advice to wear lighter armour when fighting on the rough Irish terrain, and chieftains by the end of the thirteenth century had taken to wearing tunics and pisanes of chain - mail.
 * 1983, Royal Irish Academy, Treasures of Ireland: Irish Art 3000 B.C.-1500 A.D.
 * Horsemen in full armour with short swords and wearing broad - rimmed kettle hats ( chapels - de - fer ) are shown between the bosses . The riders are clothed in long quilted garments ( aketons ) buckled at the waist with mail pisanes ...
 * 1975, Ulster Journal of Archaeology
 * Similarly extant illustrations of weapons, armour and dress , Hunt ignores simple slabs which bear no figural with long ring ... but sallets or bascinets , pisanes , and aketons . for the most part readable and straightforward.
 * 2000, R. F. Foster, Robert Fitzroy Foster, The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland, Oxford Paperbacks (ISBN 9780192893239), page 75:
 * ... as the barons began to follow Gerald of Wales&#39;s advice to wear lighter armour when fighting on the rough Irish terrain, and chieftains by the end of the thirteenth century had taken to wearing tunics and pisanes of chain - mail.
 * 1992, R. W. Lightbown, Victoria and Albert Museum, Mediaeval European Jewellery: With a Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum, Victoria & Albert Publications
 * Similarly the pisanes mentioned in English inventories and documents bore a name borrowed from armour ; these too were shoulder - capes of mail, and in the context of jewellery were presumably the English equivalent of the French ...