Dictionary

vambrace en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈvæm.bɹeɪs/

Etymology

From Middle English vambrace, vauntbras, from Anglo-Norman vambras, avantbras.

Meanings

1. (historical) The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
2. (historical) The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist.
   • To the cuirass were buckled the armour for the shoulders and arms, the first called Pouldrons, the second Brassarts, Garde bras, les avant bras, and corruptly in English, Vambraces. The vambraces included all the defence for the arms, from the pouldrons to the wrist. At the joint, or bending of the arm, the vambraces were cut obliquely, […] 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 22:
   • Thorin reached out for the vambrace and gauntlet that made up the armour's right arm. 2003, John Marco, The Devil's Armour, 2010, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page

Forms

Deriveds

guard of vambrace

Hyponyms

couter (protection from elbow to wrist) · cowter (protection from shoulder to wrist) · lower cannon of vambrace (protection from shoulder to wrist) · couter (protection from shoulder to wrist) · lower cannon of vambrace (protection from elbow to wrist) · cowter (protection from elbow to wrist) · rerebrace (protection from shoulder to wrist) · upper cannon of vambrace (protection from shoulder to wrist)

Relateds

pauldron · vambraced · vantbras

Translations (10)

ota قولچاق (piece of armor from shoulder to wrist) · fi käsivarsihaarniska (piece of armor from shoulder to wrist) · fi käsivarsihaarniska (piece of armor from elbow to wrist) · tr kolçak (piece of armor from shoulder to wrist) · tr kolçak (piece of armor from elbow to wrist) · fr brassard de l’avant-bras (piece of armor from elbow to wrist) · ota قولچاق (piece of armor from elbow to wrist) · ru наручи (piece of armor from elbow to wrist) · es avambrazo (piece of armor from elbow to wrist) · bg наръкавник (piece of armor from elbow to wrist)