1costumecloak or garment covering the shoulders:
(
MS: s.xii/xiii
)
armilausas: (O) espaulers
(var. (L: xiiiex) apaulers)
ii 50
(
MS: s.xiii
)
Super perticam magistri Johannis de Gerlandia diversa pendent indumenta, scilicet tunice et supertunicalia, pallia, scapularia
gloss: espaulires, cape, coopertoria, lintheamina [...]
i 200.59 and ii 151.59
(
MS: s.xiii/xiv
)
humerale: (D) espauler
ii 57.91
2mil.armourspaudeler, piece of armour protecing the shoulders, shoulder plate:
(
1275-1377
)
seent armez de mustilers e de quissers e des espaulers
i 231
(
1325
)
un peire de gossetes e un peyre de espaudlers
71.34
(
b.1413
) .j. harnois de jambes couvert de cuir [...], unes espaulieres [...]
76.39
3archit.shoulder, support (of a building):
(
s.xiv1;
MS: s.xivm
)
ceux quatre espaudlers par chescun angle du foundament estoient fusillés et jointz
241ra
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espauler (s.xii/xiii)