rerebrace
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of rerebrace
1300–50; Middle English, equivalent to rere- (< Middle French rere, riere behind, backward < Latin retrō- retro- ) + brace
Example Sentences
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Sunlight gleamed from the polished steel of halberd, morion, breastplate, pauldron, rerebrace.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this we see the characteristic feature of the great elbow-cops, whose channelled and fluted edges overlapping vambrace and rerebrace become monstrous fan-like shapes in the brass of Richard Quartremayns, graven about 1460.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
The Frenchman, whirling up his sword, showed for an instant a chink betwixt his shoulder piece and the rerebrace which guarded his upper arm.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A rerebrace of plate defends the outer side of the upper arm, plain elbow-cops the elbow, and round bosses in the form of leopard heads guard the shoulder and the crook of the elbow.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various
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