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Mail hosen, either knee-high or covering the whole leg. Poleyn: 13th: Plate that covers the knee, appeared early in the transition from mail to plate, later articulated to connect with the cuisses and schynbald or greave. Often with fins or rondel to cover gaps. Schynbald: 13th to 15th: Antiquity, lost but later reintroduced.
A justacorps or justaucorps (/ ˈ ʒ uː s t ə k ɔːr /) [1] is a knee-length coat worn by men in the latter half of the 17th century and throughout the 18th century. It is of French origin, where it had developed from a cape-like garment called a casaque. [2]
The poleyn or genouillere was a component of Medieval and Renaissance armor that protected the knee. During the transition from mail armor to plate armor, this was among the earliest plate components to develop. They first appeared around 1230 [1] and remained in use until 1650 when firearms made them obsolete.
“X-Men: First Class” star Michael Fassbender is set to star in a biopic about an Irish rap group called Kneecap. As Variety exclusively confirmed in May, the feature film – eponymously named ...
European military uniforms incorporated culottes as a standard uniform article, the lower leg being covered by either stockings, leggings, or knee-high boots.Culottes were a common part of military uniforms during the European wars of the eighteenth-century (the Great Northern War, the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, the French and ...
The patella (pl.: patellae or patellas), also known as the kneecap, is a flat, rounded triangular bone which articulates with the femur (thigh bone) and covers and protects the anterior articular surface of the knee joint. The patella is found in many tetrapods, such as mice, cats, birds and dogs, but not in whales, or most reptiles.
DETROIT — Three years to the day since Dan Campbell stood behind a lectern talking about how his Detroit team would be “biting kneecaps,” Lions fans stood in the corner of Ford Field and ...
The knee is a modified hinge joint, a type of synovial joint, which is composed of three functional compartments: the patellofemoral articulation, consisting of the patella, or "kneecap", and the patellar groove on the front of the femur through which it slides; and the medial and lateral tibiofemoral articulations linking the femur, or thigh bone, with the tibia, the main bone of the lower ...