paunce

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔːns/

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Etymology 1

From Middle English paunce, from Old French pance, Middle French pans. Doublet of paunch.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. (historical) A piece of armour which covers the abdomen or lower body.
   • 2013, Gwilym Dodd, Henry V: New Interpretations, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, →ISBN, page 121:

     The chest of armour, explicitly stated to have belonged to Oldcastle, contained a pair of 'close bristeplattes', a steel 'paunce', chain mail and another breastplate 'cum lez wyngges', all of which had been confiscated by Sir Thomas ...

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paunce.

Alternative forms

• pauncer, pauncher

Related terms

• paunch

Etymology 2

See pansy.

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. Obsolete form of pansy.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     She secretly would search each daintie lim, / And throw into the well sweet Rosmaryes, / And fragrant violets, and Paunces trim […]

Anagrams

• uncape

Middle English

Alternative forms

• pawnce, pauns, pauncs

Etymology

From Old French pance, from Latin panticem, accusative of pantex. Doublet of paunche.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpau̯ns(ə)/, /ˈpans(ə)/

Noun

paunce (plural paunces)

1. paunce (piece of armour)

Descendants

• English: paunce

References

• “paunce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.