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Medieval Armor Components

Name the component of European Medieval/Renaissance armor based on the description. Looking for specific names as opposed to just "helmet". source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Components_of_medieval_armour
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Close fitting cap or hood, often made of mail.
Coif
Helmet with a full visor that was often dog or pig-faced.
Bassinet
Full-face helmet with eye slits. Stereotypical crusader helm.
Great Helm
Steel collar used to protect the neck.
Gorget
Cloth, canvas, or leather body armor lined with oblong steel plates riveted to the fabric.
Brigandine
A long coat of mail.
Hauberk
Metal breastplate sometimes connected to a back piece.
Cuirass
Plate armor that covers the shoulder and armpit with a dome shaped piece called a shoulder cop.
Pauldrons
Used to guard the forearm.
Vambrace
Gloves that covered the fingers to the forearm.
Gauntlets
Covered the front and back of the lower leg.
Greaves
Covered the thighs.
Cuisse
Plate armor used to cover the foot.
Sabaton
Bands attached to a breastplate that would protect the front waist and hips.
Faulds
Padded cloth jacket worn underneath armor or alone as armor.
Gambeson
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Protokletos
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Level 65
Jun 14, 2022
I could remember tassets, and was hoping they would work for one of "Bands attached to a breastplate that would protect the front waist and hips." or "Covered the thighs".

Will have to remember Faulds, as my breastplate has them (as well as tassets)

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