pavises

Updated: May 18, 2025

"Flavy called him in from Valenciennes, where he was about some business of his own, for there is no greater master of the culverin. And, faith, as he says, he 'has had rare sport, and will have for long." "Was there an onfall of the enemy?" "Nay, they are over wary. He shot them as they dug behind pavises. For the Duke has moved his quarters to Venette, where the English lay, hard by the town.

Andrew Lang - A Monk of Fife

"That we shall prove," said Goodwin Hawtayne; "but it would be well, ere they close with us, to raise up the mantlets and pavises as a screen against their bolts." He shouted a hoarse order, and his seamen worked swiftly and silently, heightening the bulwarks and strengthening them.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The White Company