croupiere

See also: croupière

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupière. Doublet of crupper.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɹupˈjɛəɹ/

Noun

croupiere (plural croupieres)

  1. Synonym of crupper (“armor for a horse's buttocks”).
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 30:
      The Croupiere or Buttock Piece was also some times formed of plates of copper, brass or iron, though often of jacked leather, when the chanfron and poitrinal were of metal.
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