Citations:pizane


 * 2013, Mike Loades, The Longbow, Bloomsbury Publishing (ISBN 9781782000860), page 10:
 * Mail standard or pizane, c. 1350. These were high-standing collars, offering protection to the neck and throat. The collar part extended into a mantle, which defended to just below the shoulder.


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 * 2005, Michael Livingston, Siege of Jerusalem, ISD LLC (ISBN 9781580444309), page 99:
 * Pizane (from OF pizane). “A piece of metal or mail attached to the helmet and extending over the neck and upper breast” (MED). Bot alle in storijs of stoure and in strength one. As K notes (p. 97), there is possibly a distant echo of ...
 * 1894, Philological Society (Great Britain), Transactions of the Philological Society, page 368:
 * Godefroy also gives the adj. pisanes with the same sense, and with the example elme pizane, which I take to mean "helmet of Pisa." I conclude that the word is really formed from the place-name Pisa.