cauldron

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And now he showed me pieces of armour, that is, a vizored headpiece or armet, with cuirass, backplates, pauldrons and vambraces, all very richly gilded, the which it seemed he had chosen for my defence.

From Martin Conisby's Vengeance by Farnol, Jeffery

She had his pauldrons, breastplate, and arm-coverings off in no time flat.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.

"You can thus raise your hand quite up to your very crest, which you could never do before, since pauldrons were invented."

From Agincourt The Works of G. P. R. James, Volume XX by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)

Abruptly he shrugged his shoulders—to the extent that his pauldrons permitted—and remounted the rohorse.

From A Knyght Ther Was by Young, Robert F.

As late as the 18th century the portrait painters drew their military or naval sitters in the breastplates and pauldrons, vambraces and rerebraces of an earlier age.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various