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verb - put a caparison on
verb - to armor a horse
BARDING - Barding (also spelled bard or barb) is body armour for war horses, especially as used by European knights. During the late Middle Ages as armour prot...
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Present participle of bard. |
cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon. |
A poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition. |
A rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting. |
Cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon. |
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Barding (also spelled bard or barb) is body armour for war horses, especially as used by European knights. * During the late Middle Ages as armour protection for knights became more effective, their mounts became targets. This vulnerability was exploited by the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in the 14th century, when horses were killed by the infantry, and for the English at the Battle of Crécy in the same century where longbowmen shot horses and the then dismounted French knights were killed by heavy infantry. Barding developed as a response to such events. * Examples of armour for horses could be found as far back as classical antiquity. Cataphracts, with scale armour for both rider and horse, are believed by many historians to have influenced the later European knights, via contact with the Byzantine Empire.Surviving period examples of barding are rare; however, complete sets are on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Wallace Collection in London, the Royal Armouries in L |