A culet (also spelled ''culette'') is a piece of

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consisting of small, horizontal

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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'',Harold Leslie Peterson, ''Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783'' (2000, Courier Corporation, , page 120 or ''hoguine''.Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, ''A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One'' (2013, Courier Corporation, : "that rmorguarding the loins as known asas the HOGUINE or CULET."

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