Culet (armour)

The lower section of this armour is the culet.
The lower section of this armour is the hoguine.

A culet (also spelled culette) is a piece of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks.[1] Usually a skirt of chain mail or a mail brayette was worn underneath.[2]

This armour was also referred to as a garde de rein[3] or garde rein,[4][2] or hoguine.[5]

  1. ^ Daub, Greg. "Pictorial Glossary of Armor Terms". Archived from the original on 22 February 2004 – via Messiah University Personal Home Pages.
  2. ^ a b Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 (2000, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486412443, page 120
  3. ^ Journal of the Arms and Armour Society (1989), volume 13, page 262
  4. ^ Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog (2001, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780924171857, pages 391, 399
  5. ^ Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One (2013, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486146126: "that [armor] guarding the loins [was known as] as the HOGUINE or CULET."