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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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
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
The colour was a vivid red crown on a khaki brassard on the young man's arm.
From If Winter Comes by Hutchinson, A. S. M. (Arthur Stuart-Menteth)
He had started for London by the early train on Monday morning with the intention of immediate enrolment in any such service that offered; of getting, in fact, into his brassard at once.
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)
He watched every movement of the orderly, who, with a Red Cross brassard on his arm, was acting as chief of the improvised ambulance corps.
From The Little Colonel's Hero by Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows)
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