lamboys

See also: Lamboys

English

Etymology

Unclear. Perhaps from French lambeaux (“shreds, tatters; the fringe on a military cloak”), or perhaps a misreading of jamboys, jambeaus (“leg armor”).

Noun

lamboys pl (plural only)

  1. (historical) Bases (skirts made of armour)

Further reading
  • 1983, The Official Encyclopedia of Antiques and Collectibles, →ISBN:
    TONLET. Plate armor that consists of an expansive, bell-shaped skirt with wide vertically fluted folds; of medieval origin, it was also called a base, lamboy or jamboy.
  • James Augustus Henry Murray; Henry Bradley; William Alexander Craigie; Charles Talbut Onions (1908) A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, page 36: “ […] the meaning is obscure, and it has been suspected that lamboys is a mistake for some form of JAMBERS or JAMBEAUX.”
  • 1862, Hensleigh Wedgwood (M.A.), Dictionary of English Etymology, page 302:
    Lambeaux or labeaux was also the name given to the fringe (laciniis) hanging from the military cloak - Duc.; OE. lamboys, the drapery which came from below the tasses over the thighs.
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