gantelet

gant +‎ -elet.

• IPA^(key): /ɡɑ̃.tlɛ/

gantelet m (plural gantelets)

1. gauntlet (armored glove)
2. gauntlet (falconer's glove)
3. gauntlet (challenge)

• envoyer son gantelet
• ramasser le gantelet

• “gantelet” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• gauntlet

First known attestation in the late 13th century in the plural gantelés. From gant +‎ -elet (no evidence of an intermediate *gantel).

gantelet m (oblique plural gantelez or ganteletz, nominative singular gantelez or ganteletz, nominative plural gantelet)

1. gauntlet (armored glove)

• French: gauntlet, gantlet
• → Middle English: gauntelett, gantelett, gantlett, gawntlet, gantlet
  • English: gauntlet
• → Spanish: guantelete

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (gantelet, supplement)