File talk:René d'Anjou Livre des tournois France Provence XVe siècle.jpg

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Why does it have holes? Ingolfson (talk) 11:28, 10 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I wondered that too. Googling did not turn up any other cuirasses with holes that I could find, and it seems like a rather bad idea for the obvious reason. Initially, I thought maybe it was for air-cooling, but I now reject that hypothesis because, what with the mail, gambeson, and other layers, there'd likely be very little cooling effect. My other thought was that it'd been shot by a firearm, but the holes look too round and evenly-spaced. Can anyone shed any light on this? Perhaps it's a joke. It looks almost like a Dr. Seuss drawing. LOL. — Preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.118.122.187 (talk) 21:15, 14 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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