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| | | Novice Castle Question: In the castle sets, what is the proper name for the hood and apron the horses wear? If you have no idea what I'm talking about, see here (it is on the left): (URL) A (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —Chris Maddison
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| | | | | (...) The apron you refer to is called a Horse Trapping. The hood is called a barding. -Chris (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —Bianca Nebab
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| | | | | | For a long time, I called those pieces "dressing" until a horse-person corrected me with an unnecessary salad comment. Oops! Here is the explanation she gave me as I remember it: Any piece that is used as armor is a "bard" ("barding" collectively). (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —James Howse
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| | | | (...) Caprison? or is that something else? Whilst we're at it whats a gambleson? (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | (...) I usually call it "barding" which is sort of a generic term for horse armor. It could be a 'caparison' which is an ornamental horse-covering. In fact, that's probably a better word for it since it doesn't seem particularly armored. The (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —Paul Davidson
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| | | | Is there a glossary of medieval terminology somewhere? The knowledge of some of you in these discussions (that farrier vs. ferrier one comes to mind as well) amazes me. :) -- Paul Davidson www.theforce.net | Your Daily Dose of Star Wars (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | (...) I'm sure there is, somewhere. (An SCA website perhaps?) Mine just comes from reading. A *lot*. 8) On the other hand. www.dictionary.com has been fairly complete when I've used it - I did it for the quoted post, in fact, to sanity-check what I (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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| | | | | | Re: Novice Castle Question —James Brown
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| | | | (...) Heh... I was just about to answer Paul's question when I saw yours... :) The two places I look first when I run across something I don't know are: (URL) --> miscellaneous links from the SCA (Society for Creative Anachronism) website, there's a (...) (25 years ago, 19-Apr-00, to lugnet.castle)
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