quillon
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See also: Quillón
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quillon (plural quillons)
- The guard of a sword or other bladed weapon designed to protect the hand from harm.
- Either of the two arms of such a guard.
- 1884, Richard F[rancis] Burton, “The Sword: What is It?”, in The Book of the Sword, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 125:
- The quillons may be either straight […]—that is, disposed at right angles—or curved […].
- 1885, Egerton Castle, Schools and Masters of Fence: From the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century, page 233:
- With regard to the quillons, it was obvious that with slight alteration they might be made to protect the hand very much more than they did in their straight condition.
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quillon m (plural quillons)
Further reading
- “quillon”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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