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单词 chamfron
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chamfronn.

Forms: Also Middle English shawfron, Middle English–1500s shamfron, 1500s chaufrayne, shameferon, 1600s shamefrain, 1800s chamfrain, chamfrom, chamfron, ( champfrein); see also chaffron n. and its variants.
Etymology: < Old French chaufrain, chanfrain (Cotgrave has both), in modern French chanfrein , of unknown origin. (Certainly quite a distinct word from chanfrein , chamfer n.) The corruptions cheveronne n. and chieffront n. occur in 15th and 16th centuries.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈchamfrain.
archaic.
The frontlet of a barded or armed horse.
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testerc1386
cheveronnec1420
chamfron1465
shaffron1465
headpiece1530
chaffron1547
frontal1587
chieffront1598
frontlet1805
front-stall1825
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 287 To hym that made the shawfron, iiijs. ijd.
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 288 shamfron.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 204/1 Chaufrayne, a pece of harnesse for a horse, chaufrain.
1537 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 148 One paier of greate pottes pounced with Talbottes and shameferons.
1537 in J. W. Clay North Country Wills (1908) I. 148 Shamfron.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory i. 4 Plumes, bards, chaufrains, caparisons.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe I. ii. 26 His gallant war-horse..fully accoutred for battle, with a chamfrom or plaited head-piece upon his head.
1840 R. H. Barham Grey Dolphin in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 88 Grey Dolphin's chamfrain more than once dipped beneath the wave.
1884 St. James's Gaz. 20 June 11/2 A champfrein, chased with a combat of two horsemen.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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