Citations:pizaine


 * 1858, The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, for the Year ..., page 19:
 * Other armours for protection of the breast and throat, named or depicted in this age, are the cors or corset, the cuirass, the pizaine and the gorget. The Inventory of Louis Hutin in 1316 mentions The pizaine or pusane took its name from the French pis, the breast; itself derived from pectus. The word was applied to horse-armour as well as to that of the knight.


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 * 1905, The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs, page 464:
 * Gorgerete pizaine.— We have evidence that the term 'pizaine' or 'pusane' was applied to some kind of throat-guard. King Henry V pawned a gold collar ('pysane d'or') to the city of London. 'Gorgeat or pusanne' occurs (1429) ...
 * 2013, James R. Planche, An Illustrated Dictionary of Historic Costume, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486145334), page 409:
 * PUSANE, PIZAINE. A gorget, collar of steel, or breast-plate. It was sometimes made of jazerant work, for in the inventory of Louis X. of France the entry occurs of “iij colaretes pizaine de jazeran d&#39;acier.”