The pauldrons of the Maximilian suit are generally of unequal size; that for the right arm being smaller, to admit of the couching of the lance under the armpit (Fig.
The pauldrons are larger and the upstanding neck-guards more pronounced.
Enormous fan-like elbow pieces were worn, and the pauldrons or shoulder pieces were very large.
The pauldrons upon the shoulders were also large, but there were no ridges or guards, and they consisted of several plates riveted together.
The difference in size between the right and left pauldrons goes to prove that the Prince was slightly deformed, as has, indeed, been often asserted.
The pauldrons bear grotesque masks, and the coudes symbolical figures.
The pauldrons are large, and furnished with pike-guards.
The pauldrons are even more richly ornamented than the other pieces: at the back and front they are embossed with designs representing respectively Power, Victory, Peace, and Navigation.
The first has the fore arm protected by a vambrace, but instead of pauldrons and brassarts the shoulders and arms are protected by sleeves of mail.
Yet your head is as white as the ashes, and when I knew him it was a grizzled black, like pauldrons traced with silver lines; and you are mighty thin and bony for stout Sir Philip, whose right hand would have knocked down an ox!
You can thus raise your hand quite up to your very crest, which you could never do before, since pauldrons were invented.
The pauldrons are of the espalier pattern with brassarts, vambraces, coudières, and fingered gauntlets.
That the plate pauldronsof an earlier date were not, however, entirely superseded is shown by the monumental brass of W.
The pauldrons are large, and apparently reinforced by a secondary plate beneath; they are symmetrical in shape and have no pike-guards.
The epaulières consist of a number of lames which extend upwards to the neck, where they are confined by a band, and over these are two symmetrical pauldrons of plain pattern.
In the example from Vienna eyelets occur upon the pauldrons for the same purpose.
The espalier pauldrons and roundels, the peascod breastplate, and the lames of plate over the knee in the cuisses, are features of the suit.
The ugliness of the breastplate and the huge rivet-heads upon the pauldrons are strongly suggestive of the “boiler plate” armour prevailing in England at the same period.
The points calling for special notice are the passe-guards or pike-guards upon the pauldrons which constitute a very early example of this adjunct, and also the presence of two large tuilles and two smaller tuillettes.
The pauldrons are large, and below them occur complete protection for the arms, the turners being very prominent.
The pauldrons are dissimilar, the right being the smaller and hollowed for the lance; while the upper parts of both are fluted.
Espalier pauldrons of very fine workmanship protect the shoulders and upper arms; the coudières are peculiar to the period, while mitten gauntlets with long cuffs and demi-vambraces are also used.
The massive pauldrons are almost similar in outline, and each is provided with a projecting ridge upon the shoulder in addition to a low pike-guard.
The armour thus designated embraced a back- and breast-plate with espalier pauldrons to the elbows; three taces with pendent tassets of eight plates to the knees, fastened to the thighs by straps.
The pauldrons are laminated and continuous with the brassarts, which have turners, while the coudières are of the sixteenth century.
There are no tuilles, one of the most persistent features of Gothic suits, and no pauldrons or shoulder-guards.
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