It was D'Artagnan's sword, which, slipping from his
baldric, had fallen on the sonorous flooring.
They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and
baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship.
Many were the compliments and expressions of politeness that passed between Don Quixote and Don Fernando; but they were brought to an end by a traveller who at this moment entered the inn, and who seemed from his attire to be a Christian lately come from the country of the Moors, for he was dressed in a short-skirted coat of blue cloth with half-sleeves and without a collar; his breeches were also of blue cloth, and his cap of the same colour, and he wore yellow buskins and had a Moorish cutlass slung from a
baldric across his breast.
On this he gave Ajax a silver-studded sword with its sheath and leathern
baldric, and in return Ajax gave him a girdle dyed with purple.
In the rapid glance Alleyne saw that he had white doeskin gloves, a curling white feather in his flat velvet cap, and a broad gold, embroidered
baldric across his bosom.
Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man, an experienced eye might have taken him for a farmer's son upon a journey had it not been for the long sword which, dangling from a leather
baldric, hit against the calves of its owner as he walked, and against the rough side of his steed when he was on horseback.
This was done to provide a sense of visual balance when a piece with drops at either end was worn as a
baldric over the shoulder, and tied at the opposite hip.
Turnus' presence is a reminder of Virgil's biased justice because Turnus, by killing Pallas for his
baldric, is just as guilty as Camilla, Euryalus and Nisus, and unlike them he is punished when he is killed by Aeneas in "just" punishment, at the end of the poem, in a dubious act of vengeance for the death of Pallas.
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When, at the poem's end, Gawain displays the girdle and the scar on his neck as twin signs of his shame, and Camelot then adopts the girdle as its own device, we read that this green
baldric "watz acorded [thorn]e renoun of [thorn]e Rounde Table, / And he honoured [thorn]at hit hade euermore after" ("became part of the renown of the Round Table, / And whoever afterwards wore it was always honoured" (2519-20)).
baldric - a wide (ornamented) belt worn over the right shoulder to support a sword or bugle by the left hip