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PAULDRON
Definition of PAULDRON
noun
A component of plate armor that protects the shoulder, generally covering more than a spaulder, also protecting the armpit and overlapping with other armor over the upper chest and back.
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Other senses
PAULDRON carries 3 further meanings.
noun
The armor of the shoulder when it is a piece separate from that of the body and of the arm.
noun
A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.
noun
A component of plate armour that protects the shoulder.
Where it comes from
From earlier pouldron, poleron, paleron from Middle English polron, palerns, pollerons. This may have been borrowed from Old French paleron, which derives from elements corresponding to French pale (“blade (of a shovel, etc)”) + -eron but was semantically influenced by Old French espaule (“shoulder”) (whence French épaule). Alternatively, some references derive the Middle English word from Middle French espalleron, espauleron, from Old French espaule. Although a form with d at the end is found in Middle English (polrondys, compare Early Modern English polrynges c. 1550), the interpolation of a d between the l and the r dates to the 1500s; the d, and the preference since the early 1800s for the spelling and pronunciation with paul- rather than poul-, may be due to the influence of spaulder.
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
Word DNA
Line of descent
3 recorded generations before English.
Deepest traced root
13th
of 58 source languages in OUTLIER
1.1%
of traced words share this origin (336)
branch · 15.4% of traced words
How it is built
Same root, PAULDRON · 1 relative in the game
PAULDRON in a sentence
“In addition to the figure itself, the white pauldron is packed in separately.”
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
PAULDRON in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 62 boards so far. 150 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 27, 16 June 2026. The most recent board was Day 144, 11 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 3 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 39, 28 June 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
PAULDRON starts with P and ends with N. Sorted, its letters read ADLNOPRU - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. No letter is used twice, which makes it an isogram.
Also seen on Day 27
Could you have found PAULDRON?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 27 - and most players walked straight past it.
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