A variant spelling of flancard; armor for the sides of a horse.
Alternative spelling of flancard, from Old French flanc (flank) plus suffix -ard. Used interchangeably with flancard in medieval texts.
Medieval scribes were notoriously inconsistent—the same piece of armor might be spelled three different ways on a single page, which is why both 'flancard' and 'flanchard' appear in historical documents.
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