Citations:poleine


 * knee armor


 * 1995, Jeffrey L. Forgeng, Jeffrey L. Singman, Will McLean, Daily Life in Chaucer's England, Greenwood Publishing Group (ISBN 9780313293757), page 141:
 * Below the cuisses were knee pieces called poleines, which were half round or slightly pointed in profile, usually with a spade- or kidney - shaped wing on the outside to protect the back of the joint. Below this was suspended a ...


 * toe


 * 1852, John Luard, A History of the Dress of the British Soldier: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time, London : W. Clowes, page 41:
 * Toes of the shoes were worn a quarter of an ell long, called poleines. Paradine says, the men wore shoes with a point before half a foot long; the richer, and more eminent persons, wore them a foot, and princes two feet long the sollerets, still enormously long and pointed, called poleines:
 * 1855, James Grant, The Yellow frigate; or, The three sisters, page 91:
 * His armour was black, edged, studded, and engraved with gold; his boots had those long toes or poleines, of which we may read in the chronicles of Monstrelet; his beard was white as snow, but his dark grey eyes were bright and keen; his features were severe and somewhat harsh, ...