chamfron , auch: chamfrain , auch: chanfron

A ring at the top of the chamfron held several bright red streamers.

He set an affectionate hand on the side of his gelding's neck, just behind the last strap that held the chamfron in place.

A saddle, with a horses hard and chamfron supported by crossed lances, stood on his right.

A wrought-iron chamfron protected the animal's face.

He also left behind a leather offcut with his name inscribed upon it, and may have owned the magnificent chamfron which was found nearby.

Metal horse armours were made from mail or brigandine, with plate reserved for the head in the form of a chamfron.

A huge black chaliko all armored in gold looked down at him, its benign eyes peering from the openings of a gilded chamfron.

Thunder tossed restlessly beneath the weight of chinet, chamfron, and blanket of heavy mail.

Aigrettes, studded with diamonds and rubies, decorated the turbans of Ottoman sultans or the ceremonial chamfron of their horses.

The champron (also spelled champion, chamfron, chamfrein, and shaffron) was designed to protect the horse's face.

Master Ahlee said that it would be neither painful or injurious to the beast, so I've had your black charger saddled and fitted with a chamfron."

When it includes a disk or sheet of metal, often silver, it is known in English as a testera (Spanish loanword), chamfron (French loanword), or faceplate.

So silent and still were they, that they might have been metal- sheathed statues, were it not for the occasional quick, impatient stamp of their chargers, or the rattle of chamfron against neck- plates as they tossed and strained.

But in the forefront rode the wolf- masked figure of Meliadus, carrying his own standard, the snarling figure of a rampant wolf, even his horse caparisoned all in armor with fancifully wrought chamfron resembling the head of a gigantic wolf.