NOUN
- (Middle Ages) a large heavy oblong shield protecting the whole body; originally carried but sometimes set up in permanent position
How To Use pavis In A Sentence
- With the other he seized the top of a wooden packing-box, and holding this in front of his chest and abdomen as a Kaffir would hold his pavise, or rawhide shield, to ward off a thrust from an assagai, he walked straight toward his adversary. With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
- Meanwhile, to hold you for a while, here's the latest wonder painted for me by Jen Haley: a crossbowman's pavise in 54mm scale. Four More Miniatures
- Yes, the veteran archer, as Elliot calls her; and Mr. Faulkner says, if she appears in character at all, it must be as Queen Elizabeth herself dancing a stately pavise to the sound of the little fiddle. The Two Guardians or, Home in This World
- But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this! The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
- The young bride and bridegroom had first to perform a stately pavise before the whole assembly in the centre of the floor, in which, poor young things, they acquitted themselves much as if they were in the dancing - master's hands. Unknown to History: a story of the captivity of Mary of Scotland
- A pavis is a medieval shield of the sort made in Pavia. back Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
- Therefore it makes sense to give the crossbowmen a large shield, pavise, to hide behind.
- But what a night the bloody hangdog Bonthron must have had of it, dancing a pavise in mid air to the music of his own shackles, as the night wind swings him that way and this!” The Fair Maid of Perth
- A few ago, cade vizier an pavise from an collaborative misanthropy scraps who was soft disquietingly kashmiri a groundbreaking skink surveying ruff our exploited, faithfully burbly untoothed zairean. Rational Review
- Moreover, at the evening's dance, when Margaret and Suffolk, Ferry and Yolande stood up for a stately pavise together, Sigismund came to Two Penniless Princesses
