tonlet means A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
tonlet is pronounced /ˈtɔn.lɛt/.
noun
- A long armoured skirt, designed for combat on foot.“Accordingly, the Greenwich armoury hurriedly prepared a somewhat more conventional suit of foot combat armour made from existing pieces but incorporating newly made symmetrical pauldrons and a tonlet.”
- One of the plates which make up such a skirt.“Soon after this the six or eight "tonlets" grow fewer, being continued on the lower edge by the so-called tuilles, small plates strapped to the tonlets and swinging with the movement of the legs.”