11-24-2007, 01:42 PM
Quote:"spolia", coming from a root that means "to pull out, to skin"
Well, now you have brought me back to that point I just gave up on. This term could imply the action of putting on and more specifically peeling off an armor that goes on over the head and hangs from the shoulders rather than what it is made of. This would be an informative way to differentiate such from the tube and yoke that is bound around the body.
Though not leather, I once put on a somewhat undersized mail shirt and "skinning" would be a fair description of the process of taking it off.
Paul M. Bardunias
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
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A Spartan, being asked a question, answered "No." And when the questioner said, "You lie," the Spartan said, "You see, then, that it is stupid of you to ask questions to which you already know the answer!"
