Culet (armour)

A culet (also spelled culette) is a piece of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks.^[1] Usually a skirt of chain mail or a mail brayette was worn underneath.^[2]

The lower section of this armour is the culet.

The lower section of this armour is the hoguine.

This armour was also referred to as a garde de rein^[3] or garde rein,^[4][2] or hoguine.^[5]

References

1. Daub, Greg. "Pictorial Glossary of Armor Terms". Archived from the original on 22 February 2004 – via Messiah University Personal Home Pages.
2. Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 (2000, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486412443, page 120
3. Journal of the Arms and Armour Society (1989), volume 13, page 262
4. Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog (2001, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780924171857, pages 391, 399
5. Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One (2013, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486146126: "that [armor] guarding the loins [was known as] as the HOGUINE or CULET."