greaves (gr vz)pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) The unmelted residue left after animal fat has been rendered. [From Low German greven.] |
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There was a steel head-piece, a cuirass, a gorget and greaves, with a pair of gauntlets and a sword hanging beneath; all, and especially the helmet and breastplate, so highly burnished as to glow with white radiance, and scatter an illumination everywhere about upon the floor. Greaves must be very particular in keeping her accounts; we must go upon an entirely new plan - ' The Count Luigi raised money, like the rest, and one mild September morning, armed with battle-ax, portcullis and thundering culverin, he rode through the greaves and bucklers of his donjon-keep with as gallant a troop of Christian bandits as ever stepped in Italy. |
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