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plural espaulieres
A defence for the shoulder, composed of flexible overlapping plates of metal, especially as used in the fifteenth century: a pauldron. quotations examples
Upon the espaulieres are placed pauldrons, also ridged, with the edges turned up, so as to form the prototypes of pass-guards.
1834, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain from the Earliest Period to the Eighteenth Century