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croupiere en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kɹupˈjɛəɹ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French croupière. Doublet of crupper.

Meanings

1. Synonym of crupper (“armor for a horse's buttocks”).
   • The Croupiere or Buttock Piece was also some times formed of plates of copper, brass or iron, though often of jacked leather, when the chanfron and poitrinal were of metal. 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 30:

Forms

Synonyms

crupper