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Webster 1913 Edition

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Noun.

[L.

crinis

hair.]

A very fine, hairlike feather.

Booth.

crinet ‎(plural crinets)

(obsolete, falconry) Each of the small hairs growing around a hawk's cere.
(now historical) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.
- 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 555:
  His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.