vambrace

American  

[vam-brays] / ˈvæm breɪs /

noun

Armor.

1. a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon.

2. plate armor for the arm, usually including upper and lower cannons and a couter.

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vambrace British  

/ ˈvæmbreɪs /

noun

1. a piece of armour used to protect the arm

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Other Word Forms

• vambraced
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of vambrace

1300–50; Middle English va ( u ) mbras < Anglo-French ( a ) vantbras, equivalent to avant- fore- ( see avaunt) + bras arm ( see brace)

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

vambrace

And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that was upon his arm before her cold lips, and behold! a little mist was laid on it hardly to be seen.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Overcome with terror, Opechancanough surrendered his vambrace, bow, and arrows; and his dismayed followers threw down their arms.

From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell

The fore-arm is covered with the plates of a vambrace which appears from under the hawberk sleeve.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 6 "Armour Plates" to "Arundel, Earls of" by Various

But with a great effort he stood up, and the beaver fell from his helmet, for a lance hit him there, and another hit his left vambrace.

From The White Knight: Tirant Lo Blanc by Robert S. Rudder

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

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