brassard
Americannoun
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a decorative cloth band, often braided or tasseled, worn around the upper arm, as by military personnel to signify a particular group, regiment, etc.
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Also brassart a piece of plate armor for the arm.
noun
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an identifying armband or badge
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a piece of armour for the upper arm
Etymology
Origin of brassard
1820–30; < French, equivalent to bras arm ( see brace) + -ard -ard
Example Sentences
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They will be subject to regular Army regulations, and will wear overseas caps with a red and green patch and a green arm brassard bearing in white letters the word: "Italy."
From Time Magazine Archive
In April 1917, Colonel Lossberg was rewarded with the job of Ludendorff's Chief of Staff, and even though 18 months later his fortifications had fallen and his cause was lost, he had earned his brassard.
From Time Magazine Archive
A bulgy, bronzed fellow clad mainly in an immaculately white brassard left the rope barrier and joined Bradford.
From Forsyte's Retreat by Winston K. Marks
I couldn't believe it until Kendal, the chauffeur, turned up, also in khaki and with a Red Cross brassard on his right arm.
From The Belfry by May Sinclair
We were so accustomed to them that we did not take much notice, and I just showed my Red Cross brassard as I had been accustomed to do in Charleroi when stopped.
From Field Hospital and Flying Column Being the Journal of an English Nursing Sister in Belgium & Russia by Violetta Thurstan
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