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What is a chamfron?

What is a chamfron? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Protective armor for a horse's head, especially the face and ears.
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The chamfron is sometimes provided with hinged cheek-plates and usually has a holder for a plume.
The horse, a heavy-weight-carrier, had his chamfron of steel, and the saddle rose high at the pommel and behind the back.
The heavy ax, glancing along his helm, clove off its jaunty white plume, and crashed fair upon the chamfron of his mount.
He also left behind a leather offcut with his name inscribed upon it, and may have owned the magnificent chamfron which was found nearby.
His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.

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