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  • noun Plural form of pauldron.

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Examples

  • Those pauldrons of his look like the controls of a PlayStation, so possibly you were commissioned by some games rag focussing on Sony's systems.

    The Lone Stranger Roger Langridge 2009

  • The hardware is ­extraordinary, but what makes the show remarkable are the portraits of monarchs and ­nobles clad in the exhibition's burgonets, gorgets, pauldrons, vambraces and gauntlets.

    Armor as Wearable Sculpture 2009

  • Subversion: since the game is in third person, and the pauldrons of your player model obscure your gun in-game, there's no way to look at what you've unlocked on your own-- you have to get your buddy to aim his viewport at your upgraded piece to be able to see it at all.

    MOTY 08 Steve gaynor 2008

  • Subversion: since the game is in third person, and the pauldrons of your player model obscure your gun in-game, there's no way to look at what you've unlocked on your own-- you have to get your buddy to aim his viewport at your upgraded piece to be able to see it at all.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Steve gaynor 2008

  • Field units may wear shoulder pauldrons as high-visibility rank indicators.

    What are the Stormtroopers? 2006

  • Field units may wear shoulder pauldrons as high-visibility rank indicators.

    GalaxyFarAway.com | » 2006 » May - A Complete Star Wars Reference 2006

  • He was clad almost entirely in black armor, apart from the hood upon his head: pauldrons extending over his chest and shoulder blades; gauntlets with long protective cuffs; and tassets to cover the vulnerable spot at the top of his cuisses, where his breastplate ended and his thigh armor began.

    The Black Angel John Connolly 2005

  • At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail - gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses and sallet.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain-mail - gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses and sallet.

    Black Colossus Howard, Robert E. 1979

  • At her command they brought harness to replace Conan's chain mail -- gorget, sollerets, cuirass, pauldrons, jambes, cuisses, and sallet.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

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