The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crinel \Cri"nel\ (kr?"nEl), Crinet \Cri"net\ (kr?"n?t), n. [L.
crinis hair.]
A very fine, hairlike feather.
--Booth.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete falconry English) Each of the small hairs growing around a hawk's cere. 2 (context now historical English) A set of metal armour plating worn around a horse's neck.
Usage examples of "crinet".
His charger wore a blanket of enameled crimson scales and gilded crinet and chamfron, while Lord Tywin himself sported a thick ermine cloak.
Everywhere Qynh turned she saw horses prancing and shuffling impatient hooves as early morning sunlight winked off of silver chanfrons and crinets, gleaming against polished cruppers.
The steel chamfron had two ram's horns curling out from just in front of the ear holes and ring-joined plate made up the crinet and cuello armoring his neck and throat respectively.
You can trick out a milk cow in crupper, crinet, and charnfron, and bard her all in silk, but that doesn't mean you can ride her into battle.