pauldron

[ pawl-druhn ]

noun

, Armor.

1. a piece of plate armor for the shoulder and the uppermost part of the arm, often overlapping the adjacent parts of the chest and back.

pauldron

/ ˈpɔːldrən /

noun

1. either of two metal plates worn with armour to protect the shoulders

Word History and Origins

Origin of pauldron¹

1400–50; earlier paleron, poleron, late Middle English polron, pollerons (plural) < Middle French espalleron shoulder. See epaulet

Word History and Origins

Origin of pauldron¹

C15: from French espauleron, from espaule shoulder; see epaulette

Example Sentences

He has an angry facial expression and wears silver armor with streaks of body and face war paint; a red, black and silver helmet; boots; gauntlets; and a light-blue shoulder pauldron.

From Washington Times

He had to teach himself to possess a sound opinion on hundreds of disputed points —on the proper length of weapons, or the cut of a mantling, or the articulation of a pauldron, or whether cedarwood was better than ash for spears, as Chaucer seems to have believed.

From Literature

Overplate, ō′vėr-plāt, n. in armour, a large pauldron protecting the shoulder, or a cubiti�re protecting the elbow.

From Project Gutenberg

Pauldron, pawl′dron, n. a separable shoulder-plate in medieval armour.

From Project Gutenberg

Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace.

From Time Magazine Archive