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ˈpass-guard Obs. exc. Hist.
Forms: 6–9 pacegard(e, 7 pace-guard, 7– passguard, 8– pass guard, pass-guard, (9 passegarde, pasguard).
[app. f. pass n.2 9 + guard n. (Littré has F. passe-garde only as a neologism of 19th c.)
If passe-garde were Fr. it would necessarily mean ‘that which is used to pass a guard’ (see passe-); as an Eng. compound it would naturally mean ‘the guard of a pass’.]
An item of ancient tilt armour; according to Hewitt, a separate piece provided to accompany the grandguard, being screwed upon the left elbow as an additional defence in the tournament; also called by recent writers elbow-shield.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 12 One sorte had the vambrases the pace gardes the grandgardes..parted with golde and azure. 1660Tower Survey in Archæol. Jrnl. (1847) IV. 346 Sundry parcells of Tilt Armour..Pace-guards, viz. Russet, 7, White, 3:10. Granguards, viz. Russet, 7, White, 2:9. 1668Tower Survey (in Hewitt) One compleat armr capape engraven with the ragged staffe with a maine⁓guard and passguard—made for the Earle of Leicester. 1876J. Hewitt in Stothard's Monum. Effigies Gt. Brit. 190 This would seem to fix the name of passguard to the additional elbow-defence. 1898Visct. Dillon in Archæol. Jrnl. Ser. ii. V. 313 The pasguard is also linched on a pin.
⁋By some writers on armour, followed by dictionaries, French and Eng., the name has been erroneously applied to the garde-collet, a raised ridge-like projection of the pauldron or shoulder-piece, to turn aside the blow of a lance, used on armour before and after 1500. See1786Grose Anc. Armour 24; 1824 Meyrick Antient Armour II. 228, III. Gloss.; 1846–60 Fairholt Costume 225–6, and Glossary s.v. [corrected in ed. 1885]; 1874 Boutell Arms & Arm. ix. 155; Littré Dict. Française s.v. Passe-garde; and recent Dicts. |