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单词 vantbrace
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vantbracen.

Forms: α. Middle English vauntbras, 1500s vauntbrasse; 1500s–1600s (1800s) vantbras, 1600s–1700s vantbrass. β. Middle English, 1600s, 1800s vauntbrace, 1500s–1600s, 1800s vantbrace.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman vantbras, aphetic < avantbras, < avant before + bras arm.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈvantbrace.
Now archaic or Historical.
= vambrace n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > armour for limbs > [noun] > arm armour > armour for forearm
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1374 For. Acc. 49 Edw. III B In .x. bacinettis,..iij. paribus Vauntbras et rerebras.
1412 in F. W. Weaver Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 60 Unum basinetum cum ventale, vauntbras, rerbras [etc.].
1416 in W. H. Stevenson Rep. MSS Ld. Middleton (1911) 104 Pauns, vauntbrases,..et quysshews.
1504–6 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1901) III. 90 For iij pair vantbrases.
1520 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 167 The King..lokythe dayly..to receive the vauntbrasse and gauntlett.
1614 J. Sylvester Bethulia's Rescue vi. 254 One, for his own, his Fellow's Helm puts on: One, his right Vantbras on left arm doth don.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1121 Then put on all thy gorgeous arms,..thy broad Habergeon, Vant-brass and Greves, and Gauntlet. View more context for this quotation
1790 Ann. Reg., Poetry 153 On his strong vantbrass Hacon's sword descends.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Vant bras, armour for the arm.
β. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iii. 87 (Digby 230) Þat þe sleues eke so longe be Þat his vauntbrace may be cured ner.1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xx. cxxxix. 391 His shield was pierst, his vantbrace cleft and split.1622 F. Markham Five Decades Epist. of Warre i. x. 39 As touching the Vantbrace (which armeth from the Elbow to the hand) they are not greatly materiall in this case.a1649 W. Drummond Hist. James V in Wks. (1711) 105 After many..Blows to the Disadvantage of their Casks, Corslets and Vantbraces.1800 W. Scott Eve St. John 2 Yet his platejack was brac'd, and his helmet was lac'd, And his vauntbrace of proof he wore.1825 R. Heber Jrnl. 19 Mar. in Narr. Journey Upper Provinces India (1828) II. xxv. 126 Many of the others [sc. native horsemen of Baroda] had helmets, vant-braces, gauntlets, &c.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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