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plural baldrics
A broad belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip (across the breast, and under the opposite arm); less properly, any belt. quotations examples
As he rode down to Camelot:/And from his blazon'd baldric slung/A mighty silver bugle hung,/And as he rode his armor rung/Beside remote Shalott.
1833, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott
The figure on the left, holding the severed head of the ox, has removed his sword with the baldric from which it is suspended and given it to his companion, who holds it beside his own with the baldric swinging.
1922, Author, The Museum Journal, Vol. XIII, The University Museum, page 168
The man facing Locklear had his head covered with a red bandanna, and over his shoulder was a baldric from which a cutlass at had hung.
1998, Raymond E. Fiest, Krondor, the Betrayal, HarperCollins, page 16