vambracen.
/ˈvambreɪs/, U.S. /ˈvæmˌbreɪs/ Now only Archaeology.
Defensive armour for the (fore-) arm.
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β. 1411 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 19 A pare of vambrace and rerebrace. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) l. 984 Thys knyghtys vambracys in coloure Alle depeyntyd with red were.1513 Inventory in State Papers Henry VIII (P.R.O.: SP 1/4) f. 37 His vambraces, polvorines, ij Salettes [etc.].1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline i. 44 A fayre Corslet, with all the peeces appertaining to the same, that is the curats, ye collers, the poldrens with the Vambraces.1624 J. Smith Gen. Hist. Virginia iii. ii. 47 On his arme..an Otters skinne, or some such matter for his vambrace.a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccxviii, in Poems (1878) IV. 155 Alanzon breakes the Blow, which the King first Made...and locks his Hilt In Harrie's Vanbrace.1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant iii. 44 They have likewise the Coat of Mail, the Cuirats, the Head-piece, and a Vambrace fastened to the Sword.1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. II. 240 The vambraces..which cover'd the arms, thighs and legs of the horse-men.1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein III. ix. 260 Among gauntlets, boots, vambraces, and suchlike gear.1850 Boutell in Gentleman's Mag. 120 ii. 44 The arms are cased in brassarts and vambraces of plate.in extended use.1767 Philos. Trans. 1766 (Royal Soc.) 56 274 I supported the arm with a vambrace, or half-canal, made of one very thin piece of wood.c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 10030 Vaumbras & rerbras, wyþ coters of stel.
1385–6 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 133 ij palets, j brestplat, vambras.
1392 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 171 Unum bonum par cerotecarum de plate, cum vambrase et rerebrase.
1461 Will of John Berney (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/4) f. 182 j salett garnisshed cum argento, legharnes, vambras, & rerebras.
a1470 Dives & Pauper (1496) x. vi. 379/2 We sholde take with us rerebras and vanbras & gloues of plate.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xij One sorte had the vambrases the pacegardes the grandgardes..parted with golde and azure.
1581 T. Styward Pathwaie to Martiall Discipline ii. 165 To haue good..poldrones and vambrases for their shoulders & armes.
1627 M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt 8 [Whether] The Vambrasse, or the Pouldron, they should prize.
1816 Monthly Mag. 41 330 Their arms and legs vanbras and cuisses sheath.
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