Culet (armour)
A culet (also spelled culette) is a piece of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks.[1] Usually a skirt of chain mail or a mail brayette was worn underneath.[2]
This armour was also referred to as a garde de rein[3] or garde rein,[4][2] or hoguine.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ Daub, Greg. "Pictorial Glossary of Armor Terms". Archived from the original on 22 February 2004 – via Messiah University Personal Home Pages.
- ^ a b Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 (2000, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486412443, page 120
- ^ Journal of the Arms and Armour Society (1989), volume 13, page 262
- ^ Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog (2001, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780924171857, pages 391, 399
- ^ Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One (2013, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486146126: "that [armor] guarding the loins [was known as] as the HOGUINE or CULET."
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