English Dictionary

tonlet

/ˈtɔn.lɛt/

noun

(historical) A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot. / (historical) One of the plates which make up such a skirt.

She wore a tonlet to protect herself in battle.

意味（1）

(historical) A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot.

Accordingly, the Greenwich armoury hurriedly prepared a somewhat more conventional suit of foot combat armour made from existing pieces but incorporating newly made symmetrical pauldrons and a tonlet.

意味（2）

(historical) One of the plates which make up such a skirt.

Soon after this the six or eight tonlets grow fewer, being continued on the lower edge by the so-called tuilles, small plates strapped to the tonlets and swinging with the movement of the legs.