Manchette

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A manchette is a term most often used to describe a sleeve or glove covering the hand or forearm. This term comes to English from the original French word manchette.

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Fencing: In fencing, sabreurs wear a special glove called a manchette on their weapon hand. Covered by a type of brocaded fabric with inwoven metal threads that serve as a conductive surface that aides in the practice of electric fencing, the manchette is worn on the hand and wrist. The manchette is conducting up to but not exceeding the wrist area. It is worn in conjunction with a lamé.

Cycling: In cycling, a sleeve for the forearm, worn especially by triathletes is called a manchette. The sleeve is often made of satin-smooth knit blend of polypropylene, spandex or other advanced sport fabrics coated with an ultrasmooth synthetic coating such as polytetrafluoroethylene, to reduce wind drag.

Furniture: In furniture-making a manchette refers to an upholstered arm on a wooden frame chair like a bergère or fauteuil. The manchette is most often upholstered in silk lampas, silk jacquard, or brocade.

Medical: In the medical fields, a machette refers to a conically shaped array of microtubules that covers completely the nucleus of a spermatid.