chamfron

1. Chamfron
   (Anc. Armor) The frontlet, or head armor, of a horse.

1. (n) chamfron
   The defensive armor of the front part of the head of a war-horse. In the fifteenth century, when bards had attained their greatest development, it was fitted with earpieces covering the horse's ears, and protected the whole head between the eyes and as far down as the nostrils. It was often fitted with a spike or boss between the eyes. Also chanfrin, charfron, chaffron, chamfrin, chanfron. See cuts under armor (fig. 2) and bard.

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