Citations:tapul


 * 1895, Golden Gate Park Memorial Museum (San Francisco, Calif.), Guide to the Halls and Galleries of the Memorial Museum ..., page 87:
 * 30071 Black Armor with Embossed White Stripes, about 1540 : Burgonet with upraising helmet-shade; gorget with pauldrons attached; breast-plate with tapul and great brayette; back-plate with loin-guard. &#39; Nuremberg mark.
 * 1995, Robert Coltman Clephan, The Mediaeval Tournament, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486286204), page 193:
 * Position of peaks or tapuls on the breastplate, 110
 * 2008, Ron Ruble, ARMS & ARMOUR of Archduke Eugen, 1927 Auction Catalog (ISBN 9781435718043), page 102:
 * Short breastplate with tassets of six lames. Wrought in bright iron with a slight tapul.
 * 2010, Noel Fallows, Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia, Boydell Press (ISBN 9781843835943), page 156:
 * peascod breastplate which protrudes slightly in at the belly and has a central ridge sometimes referred to in English as a tapul. The breastplate is complemented by a small grandguard known as a targetta or manteau d&#39;armes.
 * 1999, George Cameron Stone, Glossary of the Construction, Decoration and Use of Arms and Armor in All Countries and in All Times, Courier Corporation (ISBN 9780486407265), page 145:
 * In the 16th century the type of breastplate called anime, fig. 16, was made of narrow horizontal plates fastened together by sliding rivets. Many breastplates have a pronounced ridge, called the tapul, in the center.
 * 1877, Auguste Demmin, An Illustrated History of Arms and Armour from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, London, G. Bell & sons, page 311:
 * The bishop&#39;s mantle, or mailed cape, was often worn over the cuirass, particularly in Italy during the fifteenth century. The line down the centre of the breastplate is called tapul (Oracle), centre-ridge, or salient ridge.