plate
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Searchable Lemmata: plate (AF), plata (L), platus (L), plate (ME), pláta (Ir), plât (W), plate (OScots), plate (MdE).
Alternate Forms: plat, plait, plaite, plete, plates, plaithes, platen.
Definitions and Defining Citations:
1(n.)
Armour;
flat piece of metal or (collectively) metal. With regard to armour: a piece of plate armour; used collectively for plate armour or a suit of armour (also, armour for a horse). In plural form 'plates' referring to the breastplate and backplate, often referred to as a 'pair of plates'. In some instances, refers to the breast-plate of the ephod of a Jewish high priest.(circa 1300 ? still in current use)
3. [10025] ... Hym self was armed fynly wel / Wyþ sabatons, & spores, & iaumbers of stel / Dublet & quysseux wiþ poleyns ful riche / Voydes, breche of maille, wyþ paunz non liche ... [10029] ... Hauberk wiþ plates yburnuscht ful wel / Vaumbras & rerbras, wyþ coters of stel / Þer-opon an aketon wiþ stof & al sylk, His cote of armes þer-on ... [10040] ... An helm he had on his hed / A riche corounal wiþ perre, al of brent golde / Þe nasel & bendeles of gold ful bryght, ...
Heroic, Historic.
[MED Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 ((Lamb 131) 10025-10043) ante 1450]
4. A n[ot]re seign’ le roi si le plet 7 a son conseil prie Robert de Mountfort ... ceo qe en li est dever n[ot]re seign’ le roi le estote tenu par bone obligacion ... en demy drap de colur couenable pur clerk’ destat oueqes la pelure pur surcot clos 7 pur surcot ouert oueqes un chap[er]on de menuueyr a resceuire chescun an a Castelcombe en Wiltes’ a la feste de touz seinz ..., relesser a ly 7 par taunt li g[ra]unta 7 dona la dite liv[er]ee a t[er]me de sa vie et obligea a ceo, le dit maner de Castelcombe ...
Legal.
[LexP NA [PRO] SC 8/4/193 (*) 1321/1322]
Sex: Male Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
Etymological Evidence:
Definite, Old French plate, AF plate and Medieva L plata.
WF:
Etym Cog: plate (AF), plata (L).
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