garde rein

garde rein (plural garde reins)

1. Alternative form of garde de rein
   • 1901, Wallace Collection (London, England), Sir Guy Francis Laking, Catalogue of the European Armour and Arms in the Wallace Collection at Hertford House, page 3:

     Garde rein, of four plates. Tassets, of three plates. Espaliers, of six plates. Coudes. Shell vambraces. Mitten gauntlets, with pointed cuff.

   • 1911, Bashford Dean, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 10:

     ARMOR Spanish
     This harness suggests an early period; nevertheless, judged from several details […] Back plate is formed of median and lateral elements: there are deep braconnière and garde reins, composed of four lames ...

   • 1920, Bashford Dean, Helmets and Body Armor in Modern Warfare, page 252:

     […] is also laminated; it is made up of a large upper plate, two intermediate pieces, and a lowermost plate or garde reins. These elements are riveted together and made interflexible by the use of slotted grooves in which ...

   • 2000, Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 120:

     These have been denoted the garde rein or culet. Usually a skirt of mail or at least a mail brayette was worn under these defenses. The shoulders were protected by pauldrons of lames, overlapping from the bottom up.