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Word: Pavise
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English; earliest use found in Naval Account. From Anglo-Norman pavise and Middle French pavais, pavois great shield from Italian pavese, use as noun of pavese of or relating to Pavia from post-classical Latin pavensis of or relating to Pavia from Pavia, the name of a city in northern Italy, where these shields were originally made + -ese
A distinctive form of late-medieval shield (apparently produced originally in Pavia), flat, more or less oblong in outline, but sometimes with a convex top edge, with a wide, flat, raised medial band, hollowed out at the back, extending from top to bottom. In later use sometimes applied to any large shield. In plural.
In singular.
- pavis
- pavas
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