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An Almain rivet is a type of flexible plate armour created in Germany in about 1500. It was designed to be manufactured easily whilst still affording considerable protection to the wearer. It consisted of a breastplate and backplate with laminated thigh-guards called tassets.〔Paul Cornish, ''Henry VIII's Army'' (Oxford: Osprey Publishing, 1987), 34.〕 Almain rivets were generally of fairly low quality, but they were cheap: a royal proclamation issued by Henry VIII in 1542 designated them at 7s 6d, which equated to one sixth of the cost of a suit of demi-lance armor.〔Cornish, ''Henry VIII's Army'', 34.〕 Almain rivets were frequently purchased ''en masse'' as munitions-grade armour to equip royal armies or personal retinues. ==Nomenclature== The term ''rivet'' derives from the "overlapping plates sliding on rivets" characteristic of this type of armour.〔OED〕 ''Almain'' is the Early Modern English term for "German", from the French ''alemanique'', from the mediaeval Latin ''alemanicus'', from ''Alemanni'', an early Germanic tribe.〔Larousse Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise, Paris, 1979〕 The term was introduced in about 1530 and remained in use until about 1600. Based on the term ''almain-rivet'', the word rivet itself acquired a meaning of "armour", attested (rarely) during the mid-16th century.〔OED. Ffoulkes (1912:52) suggests that the term was from French ''revêtir'', to clothe in, embellish with, from Latin ''vestire'' (Larousse, op.cit.)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Almain rivet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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