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poleyn
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poleyn [ˈpəʊleɪn]
n
(Military / Arms & Armour (excluding Firearms)) a piece of armour for protecting the knee Also called kneecap
[from Old French polain]
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Here are six rooms hung with 132 exhibits, with an excess of speciously relevant background: obscure scraps of armour (sabatons, poleyns and a vambrace with reinforcing couter); grim hunting knives such as St Eustace might have used outside the picture; a sword perhaps slightly like the sword in St George's sheath; a tapestry Pisanello never saw, and other antique fillgaps; and there is not a single place for visitors to sit.
Renaissance gothic at the national gallery by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
 
 
 
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