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peytraln.Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French peitral, petral. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman peitral, peitrel, paitrel, peiterel, peterel, petterel, partrill, etc., Anglo-Norman and Middle French petral, poitrail (11th cent. in Old French as peitral , peitrail ; French poitrail ) < post-classical Latin pectorale (recorded 11th cent. in this specific sense), specific use of classical Latin pectorāle breastplate (see pectoral n.). Compare post-classical Latin peterellum , paytrellum (1238, 1316 respectively in British sources), Old Occitan peitral (12th cent.), Catalan pitral (14th cent.), Spanish petral (13th cent.), petral (15th or 16th cent.). Compare poitrel n.Earlier currency is implied by the following surname or nickname:1326 in J. Jönsjö Stud. Middle Eng. Nicknames (1979) 164 Hugh Smerpaytrell. Quot. 1375 is from a modern calendar (or summary) of a medieval manuscript, and the readings have not been verified in the original manuscript; this calendar also provides the evidence for the form peiterell. Armour. Now historical. society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > [noun] > for breast 1375 in A. H. Thomas (1929) II. 194 [A red saddle for a woman without panel, but with] croper, peuterel, and capital [8 s.]. c1380 (1879) 3665 (MED) Brydel & paytrel & al þe gere Wiþ fyn gold y-harneysed were. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 93 A patrell, anthelna, ancella [1483 BL Add. 89074 antella], pectorale. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1959) vii. iv. 193 Thar brusyt trappuris and patrellis. 1555 R. Eden Of North Regions in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria f. 271v When theyr peitrels or drawynge collers are put on them. 1607 E. Topsell 306 So as neither girths, peytrill, sturrops, trappings, or crupyard, fall betwixt the backe and saddle. 1656 T. Blount Pectoral, a brest-plate or defence for the brest, a Peitrel, Poitrel, or Stomacher. 1857 T. Wright Peitrel, a breast plate; the strap that crosses the breast of a horse. 1894 H. A. L. Dillon in W. J. Loftie (ed. 2) 147 Note also the horse armour consisting of the chanfrein for the head, the crinet for the neck, and the bard protecting the body, that is, the peytral on the chest. 1929 79 242 The two sales of the armoury of Prince Radziwill..included no less than 22 chanfrons and 15 peytrals of Maximilian date. 1967 29 Nov. 809/3 If some hulking great brute..were to straddle an already overburdened war-horse, the whole caboodle would collapse in a sorry ruin of pauldron and salade, breastplate and roundel, cantle, crupper, greave, flanchard, peytral, chanfron and crinet. 2002 Apr. 58/2 The horses all have a nicely depicted plumed chamfron (nose guard) and peytral (chest armour). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † peytralv.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: peytral n. Obsolete. rare. society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for horse > armour horse [verb (transitive)] > with breast-armour the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > fit horse armour c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. v. 23 (MED) For it his þe wone of wil to wynse and to kyke; Let peitrel [v.r. For-þy let peytrele wil I] hym and pole hym wit peyntede wittes. c1475 (c1450) P. Idley (Cambr.) (1935) ii. A. 1043 (MED) Wyfes may not to churche till they be entired, Ibrideled and peytrelled to shewe hir arraye, And feeted abowte as a hakeney to be hired. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1375v.c1400 |