Gardebras
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A piece of armor which protects the arm.
"The gardebras here probably implies the whole armour for the arms, consisting of pauldrons, brassarts, elbow-pieces, and vambraces, though there is a gardebras of the more antient kind so formed as to screw on the bridle-arm […]"
Example
More examples"The gardebras here probably implies the whole armour for the arms, consisting of pauldrons, brassarts, elbow-pieces, and vambraces, though there is a gardebras of the more antient kind so formed as to screw on the bridle-arm […]"
Etymology
Either borrowed from (Middle) French garde-bras, gardebras, or modified (under the influence of that word) from Middle English garbrasse, itself from that (Middle) French word.
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