ˈflancard Obs. exc. Hist.
Also 6 ? flaunkart, flankett, 8 flankart, 9 (Hist.) flanchard.
[a. OF. flancard, f. flanc flank n.1]
1. a. A piece of armour for the thigh. b. In horse-armour, one of the side-pieces covering the flanks.
| c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon vi. 142 His swerde..cut thrugh..an hundred mayles of his flancardes. 1513 Douglas æneis vii. xi. 76 Burnist flaukartis [? read flan- or flaun-] and leg harnes. 1548 Hall Chron. 12 a, Some had..the guissettes, the flancardes droped & gutted with red. 1555 Eden Decades 188 A barbed horse with his barbes and flankettes. 1870 Black tr. Demmin's Weapons War 350 The side pieces or flanchards..which joined the front plate or breast-piece to the thigh-pieces and croupière. |
2. = flanker n.1
| 1767 T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. II. ii. 163 And firing briskly from the flankarts, saved the house. |