brayette

Etymology
From or an earlier (Old or Middle French) form thereof.

Noun

 * 1)  An item of armor (mail or plate) protecting the groin.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 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.

Noun

 * 1) fly (front slit-like opening of underpants)