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the bar behind a shield's face that turns flat metal into an extension of your arm
means An enarme is one of the leather or fabric straps fixed to the inner face of a shield, through which the bearer slips the forearm so the shield can be gripped and maneuvered.
from From French enarme, built on the Old French arme ("arm, weapon"), itself from Latin arma ("arms, equipment"). The prefix en- carries the sense of "in" or "into" — fittingly, since the enarme is the strap your arm goes into. The same Latin arma branches out to a whole armory of relatives: army, armor, and alarm among them.
- definition
- strap or grip that holds a shield to forearm
- vs handle
- replaced the central boss-grip in medieval Europe
- french origin
- name borrows the French word for arm
- paired with
- often used alongside a guige neck strap
- design shift
- let knights wield lance and shield together
enarme de orleans — joan of arc's sword, allegedly inscribed with fleurs-de-lis, used in the hundred years' war
enarme longsword technique — medieval sword grip method documented in 15th-century german fencing manuals like talhoffer's treatises