Pavise vs Pavais - What's the difference?
pavise | pavais | Alternative forms |
(military, historical) A very large shield covering a soldier from head to foot, often with a projecting ridge running vertically down the center.
* 1786 , Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons , page 27:
Pavais is a alternative form of pavise.
As nouns the difference between pavise and pavais
is that pavise is alternative form of lang=en while pavais is a very large shield covering a soldier from head to foot, often with a projecting ridge running vertically down the center.pavais
English
Alternative forms
* pavesse * pavese * paviseNoun
(es)- The pavais , pavache, or tallevas was a large shield, or rather a portable mantlet, capable of covering a man from head to foot, and probably of sufficient thickness to resist the missive weapons then in use.