tonnelet
English
Noun
tonnelet (plural tonnelets)
- Alternative form of tonlet
- 1920, Sir Guy Francis Laking, Charles Alexander baron de Cosson, A Record of European Armour and Arms Through Seven Centuries:
- The head-piece is a salade of German shape, with a lifting visor beneath which, attached to the breastplate [...] The most remarkable plates of this armour are those which compose its skirt or tonnelet, a part known in France as the grande braconnière: this skirt, which covers the thighs, consists of six plates.
- 1992, Stephen Varick Dock, Costume & Fashion in the Plays of Jean-Baptiste Poquelin Molière: A Seventeenth-century Perspective:
- It consisted of a helmet with a pointed visor decorated with plumes along the crest, an ornate breastplate with a stomacher, a tonnelet covered with two different rows of bullion, and ankleboots.
French
Etymology
From Old French tonelet, diminutive of tonel (Modern French tonneau).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tɔn.lɛ/
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Further reading
- “tonnelet”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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