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pauncher

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Searchable Lemmata: pauncere (ME), pauncher (MdE).
Alternate Forms: panchere, pancherde, paunch, pawnchere, pawncherde.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1(n.) Accessory; belt or girdle.(circa 1390 - ante 1500)
1. [One cloak of] blod [lined with blanket, 5 s.]..[one] cradell, [12 d.; 2] paunchers, [6 d.]; bedbords, [2 s. 3 d.]. Accounts. [MED Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh. (211) 1393]
2. Pawnchere: Lumbare, renale. [MED PParv. ((Hrl 221) 387) 1440]
c.f.: paunce
ME.
Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Waist.
2(n.) Armour; a piece of armour protecting the abdomen (cf. paunce).(circa 1390 - circa 1450 ?)
1. Sirs, 3e þat will has to wend 3our wapens deuoidis; Nymes of 3our nethirgloue & nakens 3oure leggis, Pesan, pancere, & platis. Heroic, Historic, Romance. [MED Wars Alex. ((Ashm 44) 4960) ante 1400]
c.f.: paunce
ME.
Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Back, Chest, Entire Body.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, from Old French/Middle French pancier, panciere, panchiere 'piece of armour protecting lower part of body' < paunce (q.v.) + agent suffix. The sense of 'belt, girdle' is not attested in continental French; the word is not present in AND.
WF: Borrowed into the British Isles
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