Brasset

Under their veſts they had coats of mail and braſſets, and little morions in form of caps upon their heads, with viſors; and were perfectly well dreſſed […]

Figure 21 is another defensive arm, consisting of a brasset, with its gantlet.

The duke rushed between them, and aimed a stroke at the assailant's helmet, who parried the blow; and the sabre, which had been directed against the Marshal de Rieux, fell on the arm of the Duke of Orleans. It pierced his brasset, and the blood flowed from the wound: his sword fell from his powerless grasp.

A breastplate; to which were generally added the gorget or collar around the throat, the back-piece, and brassets or sleeves, forming altogether a complete vest of steel covering the upper part of the body.

This object was a brasset of Milan, or, in less technical language, a long gauntlet, composed of the glove and wrist-plate, articulated together, and of the iron sheath intended to cover the fore-arm.

These brassets, truth to tell, May look uncommon well, But in a fight They're much too tight, They're like a lobster shell!

He handles a brasset: a visored helmet and sword lie on the ground.

After some fumbling he got rid of the brassets on his forearms and their attached gauntlets, and then the cuirass with its little chain sleeves.

2nd Arm. [...] Enlighten me, good Andalusian, in like fashion as thou bringest out the polish upon thy noble master's gold-inlaid lambrequins [helmet-draperies]. 1st Arm. [...] I will reveal to thee why I scrub this harness with a joyful spirit. It is because it will have to stand no rougher blows than sun-strokes [...]; whereas there were times when it would go to my heart to expend pumice, emery, and wash-leather upon it. Now, see this dint here—not in the back, idle Catalan, but here, betwixt the brasset and hauberk.

Oh, that's a head-piece, called a casque; but they've lots o ' names for it — such like as 'morion,' or 'brasset,' or 'helmet.' That's what they call the vizard; they breathed through them perforated holes.