mancheron

French

mancheron (plural mancherons)

1. A sleeve used as a charge in French heraldry
2. An ornamental trimming on the upper part of a sleeve
   • 1824 January, La Belle Assemblée, volume 29, Fashions, page 29:

     No.1—Walking Dress...The mancherons are beautifully formed of double rows of pointed straps and finished next the arm with vandykes reversed.

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “mancheron”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

• anchor men, anchormen

mancheron m (plural mancherons)

1. mancheron
2. stilt

• “mancheron”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.