What is "carlet"

Usage examples of "carlet".

Antoine, about 1500 men,[26] march in three columns into the hall, one of which is composed of fusiliers and the other two of pikemen, "their pikes being from eight to ten feet long," of formidable aspect and of all sorts, "pikes with laurel leaves, pikes with clover leaves, pikes à carlet, pikes with turn spits, pikes with hearts, pikes with serpents tongues, pikes with forks, pikes with daggers, pikes with three prongs, pikes with battle axes, pikes with claws, pikes with sickles, lance-pikes covered with iron prongs.