"mainfaire" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: mainfaires [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} mainfaire (plural mainfaires)
  1. Alternative form of manefaire (“horse's neck armor”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: manefaire (extra: horse's neck armor)
    Sense id: en-mainfaire-en-noun-mTRv9KDp Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1901, Wallace Collection (London, England), Sir Guy Francis Laking, Catalogue of the European Armour and Arms in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, page 127",
          "text": "464. Demi-chanfron, with central spike in the middle of the forehead, hinged crinière at the top. Dec.: none. Attached is a mainfaire of eleven arched plates with rounded ends; each plate is pierced on either side with an oblong opening.This will considerably lighten the mainfaire, and make little difference in the strength of the plates. Italian, about 1580."
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          "ref": "1907, Albert Frederick Calvert, Spanish Arms and Armour: Being a Historical and Descriptive Account of the Royal Armoury of Madrid, page 134:",
          "text": "Saddles, chanfrons, and mainfaires of both bards are preserved, these sets being that of the dragon chanfron on the horse A190, and that with the inlaid work on the present figure; but the cruppers and poitrels of both have been […]",
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