Encyclopedia of historical weapons - Badelaire
Sword with a heavy, curved blade and S-shaped quillions; used during the 16th century.
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- Plate armour protecttion for the front of the torso, to the waist. See also plackart.
- Flambards
- See Flammards.
- Lucerne hammer
- A staff weapon with a hammer-head balanced by a fluke, popular with Swiss infantry in both the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Falx
- The falx is a curved cutlass-like blade on the end of a long wooden (almost spear-like) handle. Unlike a cutlass, however, the falx is sharpened…
