sabaton – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
Sabaton
A
sabaton or
solleret is part of a
knight's
armour that covers the foot. Fourteenth and fifteenth century sabatons typically end in a tapered point well past the actual toes of the wearer's foot, following fashionable shoe shapes of the fourteenth century. Sabatons of the first half of sixteenth century end at the tip of the toe and may be wider than the actual foot. They were the first piece of armour to be put on, and were made of riveted iron plates called
lames.
sabaton
Noun
1. armor plate that protects the foot; consists of mail with a solid toe and heel
(synonym) solleret
(hypernym) armor plate, armour plate, armor plating, plate armor, plate armour
(part-holonym) body armor, body armour, suit of armor, suit of armour, coat of mail, cataphract
Sabaton, Solleret
Armour for the foot, usually consisting of articulated plates ending in a toecap. Plate sabatons seem to have made their appearance in the middle of the 14th century, remaining in common use throughout the 15th and 16th centuries. In the early 14th century, the foot was defended by
mail or scales, though no examples of these defenses remain apart from evidence on
funerary brasses . Milanese armour from the 15th century generally used mail for the defense of the foot rather than the solleret; the reason for this is unclear, especially since armour made in nearly every other region of Europe adopted the sabaton long before this.
