Definition of "paunce"

paunce¹

/pɔːns/

noun
plural paunces
1. (historical) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.
  Quotations
  The chest of armour, explicitly stated to have belonged to Oldcastle, contained a pair of 'close bristeplattes', a steel 'paunce', chain mail and another breastplate 'cum lez wyngges', all of which had been confiscated by Sir Thomas ...
  2013, Gwilym Dodd, Henry V: New Interpretations, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, page 121

paunce²

/pɔːns/

noun
plural paunces
1. Obsolete form of pansy.
  Quotations
  She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie