mascled, a.
(ˈmɑːsk(ə)ld, -æ-)
[f. mascle n.1 + -ed2.]
Covered with mascles.
| 1818 Meyrick in Archæologia (1821) XIX. 126 The earliest specimen I have found of the mascled hauberk. 1828–40 Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) I. 321 He [Alexander II] appears clothed in a complete coat of mascled mail. 1846 Fairholt Costume in Eng. 88 The mascled armour of this era [13th c.]. |