From Encyclopedia
- Jupon
- Short, fitted overcoat made of several thick fabric layers and a final layer which was usually from silk or velvet. Has an embroided coat of arms of…
- Sheath
- See Scabbard.
- Tang
- The continuing, hidden part of a blade inside a handle. May be of a different temper than the blade. Sword may have full or…
- Volant-piece
- An English term for the reinforcing brow-piece on a helmet such as the sallet.
