rerebracen.

Brit.

/ˈrɪəbreɪs/, U.S.

/ˈrɪ(ə)rˌbreɪs/

Forms: late Middle English rerbras, late Middle English rerebrake (transmission error), late Middle English rerebrasce, late Middle English–1500s rerebras, late Middle English–1600s 1800s– rerebrace.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rerebras.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman rerebras (a1341 or earlier) < rere- rear- comb. form + bras arm (see brace n.¹). Compare vambrace n., vantbrace n.It is uncertain whether earlier instances as a vernacular word in Latin documents should be taken as showing the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word.

In later use chiefly historical.

A piece of armour covering the upper arm from the shoulder to the elbow. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. brace n.² 1a, vambrace n.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour > for upper arm

rerebrace1411

brasset1728

brassard1830

1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 (MED) A basynet with a ventaile, a pare of vambrace and rerebrace, [etc.].

a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 10030 (MED) Hym self was armed fynly wel Wyþ..Vaumbras & rerbras, wyþ coters of stel.

a1486 Ordinances Chivalry in Archaeologia (1900) 57 40 Abilment for the Justus of the Pees: A helme well stuffyd..A Rerebrace [v.r. rerebrake] with a rolle of ledyr well stuffid.

a1500 Treat. Ghostly Battle in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 425 (MED) Seynt Powle byddeth you take vambrace and rerebrace and gloves of plate, that ys, goode occupacions and besynes in gostly werkes eyther bodyly.

c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. liv Like men of were, with brest plate, vambrace & rerebrace.

1824 Archaeologia 20 503 In later times the armour for the arm was distinguished into the vambrace, elbow-piece, brassart (the same as rerebrace) and pauldron.

1830 J. Skelton Meyrick's Antient Rome Pl. ix. 5 The rere-brace with its long armed gauntlet for the bridle arm.

1870 J. Payne Masque of Shadows 74 Chanfrein and poitrail with its rusty spike, Rerebrace and all the like.

1949 Classical Philol. 44 275/2 Among the topics..discussed are..vambrace and rerebrace in Greek and Etruscan armor.

1992 T. T. Thomas in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars V 319 The warrior shrugged massively, withdrawing its arms from the crabbed gauntlets, vambraces, rerebraces, and pauldroons.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rerebrace
释义	rerebracen. Brit. /ˈrɪəbreɪs/, U.S. /ˈrɪ(ə)rˌbreɪs/ Forms: late Middle English rerbras, late Middle English rerebrake (transmission error), late Middle English rerebrasce, late Middle English–1500s rerebras, late Middle English–1600s 1800s– rerebrace. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French rerebras. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman rerebras (a1341 or earlier) < rere- rear- comb. form + bras arm (see brace n.¹). Compare vambrace n., vantbrace n.It is uncertain whether earlier instances as a vernacular word in Latin documents should be taken as showing the Anglo-Norman or the Middle English word. In later use chiefly historical. A piece of armour covering the upper arm from the shoulder to the elbow. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. brace n.² 1a, vambrace n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour > for upper arm rerebrace1411 brasset1728 brassard1830 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 (MED) A basynet with a ventaile, a pare of vambrace and rerebrace, [etc.]. a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 10030 (MED) Hym self was armed fynly wel Wyþ..Vaumbras & rerbras, wyþ coters of stel. a1486 Ordinances Chivalry in Archaeologia (1900) 57 40 Abilment for the Justus of the Pees: A helme well stuffyd..A Rerebrace [v.r. rerebrake] with a rolle of ledyr well stuffid. a1500 Treat. Ghostly Battle in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 425 (MED) Seynt Powle byddeth you take vambrace and rerebrace and gloves of plate, that ys, goode occupacions and besynes in gostly werkes eyther bodyly. c1613 in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) p. liv Like men of were, with brest plate, vambrace & rerebrace. 1824 Archaeologia 20 503 In later times the armour for the arm was distinguished into the vambrace, elbow-piece, brassart (the same as rerebrace) and pauldron. 1830 J. Skelton Meyrick's Antient Rome Pl. ix. 5 The rere-brace with its long armed gauntlet for the bridle arm. 1870 J. Payne Masque of Shadows 74 Chanfrein and poitrail with its rusty spike, Rerebrace and all the like. 1949 Classical Philol. 44 275/2 Among the topics..discussed are..vambrace and rerebrace in Greek and Etruscan armor. 1992 T. T. Thomas in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars V 319 The warrior shrugged massively, withdrawing its arms from the crabbed gauntlets, vambraces, rerebraces, and pauldroons. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1411
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