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A culet (also spelled culette) is a piece of plate armour consisting of small, horizontal lames that protect the small of the back or the buttocks. Usually a skirt of chain mail or a mail brayette was worn underneath.

This armour was also referred to as a garde de rein or garde rein, or hoguine.

References

1. Daub, Greg. "Pictorial Glossary of Armor Terms". Archived from the original on 22 February 2004 – via Messiah University Personal Home Pages.
2. ^ Harold Leslie Peterson, Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 (2000, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486412443, page 120
3. Journal of the Arms and Armour Society (1989), volume 13, page 262
4. Ivor Noel Hume, Audrey Noel Hume, The Archaeology of Martin's Hundred: Part 1, Interpretive Studies; Part 2, Artifact Catalog (2001, University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN 9780924171857, pages 391, 399
5. Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One (2013, Courier Corporation, ISBN 9780486146126: "that guarding the loins as the HOGUINE or CULET."

v t e Components of medieval European armour
Head	Armet Barbute Bascinet Burgonet Cervelliere Enclosed helmet Close helmet Great helm Frog mouth Hounskull Lobster tail pot Mail coif Morion Nasal helmet Sallet Spangenhelm Kettle hat
Face	Visor Falling buffe
Neck	Aventail Bevor Gorget Pizaine
Torso	Breastplate Brigandine Cuirass Culet Pauncer Plackart Fauld Hauberk Codpiece Lance rest Coat of plates Jack of plate
Arms	Ailette Besagew Couter Gauntlet Pauldron Rerebrace Spaulder Vambrace
Legs	Bases Chausses Cuisses Greave Poleyn Sabaton Schynbald Tasset
Pieces	Gousset Lame Rondel Arming points

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