pauldrons

A form of shoulder armor, usually made from metal. They often protect the armpit as well as the back and chest, either separately or as part of a large breastplate.

A closely related form of armor is spaulders, which are made of smaller overlapping plates that cover just the shoulder and top of the forearm. On Danbooru, spaulders are treated as pauldrons.

Examples

Spiked pauldrons

Single pauldron

Knight armor

See also

• rerebrace, for the upper arms.
• couter, for the elbows.
• vambraces, for the forearms.
• gauntlets, for the hands.
• sode, the closest Japanese equivalent.
• epaulettes, on military uniforms
• shoulder boards, on police uniforms
• arm guards
• single pauldron
• spiked pauldrons
• List of armor

External links

• Wikipedia: Pauldron
• Wikipedia: Spaulder

The following tags are aliased to this tag: pauldron and spaulders (learn more).

This tag implicates shoulder_armor (learn more).

The following tags implicate this tag: single_pauldron and spiked_pauldrons (learn more).