"almain rivet" meaning in English

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          "text": "Two tithing corslets furnished, ij pair of almain rivets furnished. […]\nJohn Glasse, one almain rivet.\nJohn Chapman, one almain rivet.\nJohn Hurforde, with others[,] one almain rivet."
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          "text": "This archer of the Earl of Northumberland's contingent (centre) is shown without his 'Almain rivet', displaying instead the coat supplied to men of this contingent. His hat and quiver are both of the Percy family livery colours.",
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          "text": "The pikemen wore a corslet or almain rivet with a burgonet, the halberdiers and bill-men the almain rivet, or a corslet with mail-sleeves, the “shot” brigandines, coats of plate, or jacks with tippets (and sometimes sleeves), ...",
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          "text": "New in Henry's first French war were almain rivets, mass-produced South German plate body armours (see Fig. 3.3). The king himself ordered 2,000 of them in 1512 and his subjects soon began to catch up.",
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