crinet

noun2

1. •
   (historical) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.

   • His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak. — 1999
2. •
   (no longer used) Each of the small hair-like feathers growing around a hawk's cere.

   • She has a blue beak, but the seer thereof, and legs, are yellow; the crinets or little feathers under the eye are very black; […] — 1792