Noun: pavais
| Singular | pavais |
| Plural | pavaises |
Sample Sentences
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The pavais, pavache, or tallevas was a large shield, or rather a portable mantlet, capable of covering a man from head to foot, and probably of sufficient thickness to resist the missive weapons then in use. [1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 27:]
Nouns inflected like pavais
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle French pavais, Old French pavaix (see modern French pavois); see pavis for more. See: French Nouns '
pavois'.