-
armour became common, the
surcoat was
phased out of use. This
period in the
history of
armour development, in
which surcoats became increasingly rare,...
-
appendages such as
lance rests or plumeholders, or
clothing such as
tabards or
surcoats,
which were
often worn over a harness.
There are a
variety of alternative...
-
heraldic colour. Men wore a tunic, cote, or
cotte with a
surcoat over a
linen shirt. One of
these surcoats was the cyclas,
which began as a
rectangular piece...
-
early 1652,
surcoats with
insignia badges started to be worn to
indicate the wearer's rank. They were also
wearing three-quarter
length surcoats,
called duanzhao...
-
completely covered with
surcoats. Lower-ranking
officials had
eight or five
dragons on
their robes,
again covered with
surcoats; even the
emperor himself...
- must
recite the Lord's
Prayer at the same hours. The
knights wore a
white surcoat with a red cross, and a
white mantle also with a red cross; the sergeants...
- coat of arms is a
heraldic visual design on an
escutcheon (i.e., shield),
surcoat, or
tabard (the
latter two
being outer garments). The coat of arms on an...
- need for
marks of
identification arose, and with
coloured shields and
surcoats, coat
armoury was born.
Armorial rolls were
created to
record the knights...
- cuir****,
began to be worn
without any
surcoat; but in the
concluding quarter of the
century the
short surcoat, with full
short sleeves,
known as a "tabard"...
- the word in
English in 1450.
Tabards were
apparently distinguished from
surcoats by
being open-sided, and by
being shorter.[citation needed] In its later...
