vanbrace
vanbrace is the alternative form of vambrace.
Meaning of vambrace
Noun
vambrace (plural vambraces)
- The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
- The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist.
- To the cuirass were buckled the armour for the shoulders and arms, the first called Pouldrons, the second Brassarts, Garde bras, les avant bras, and corruptly in English, Vambraces. The vambraces included all the defence for the arms, from the pouldrons to the wrist. At the joint, or bending of the...1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22
Forms of vanbrace
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Questions about vanbrace
- What is vanbrace the alternative form of?
- Vanbrace is the alternative form of vambrace.
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