vambrace

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist. historical
  2. The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist. historical
    — 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, […]

词形变化

vambraces plural vantbrace alternative vanbrace alternative vantbrass alternative vantbras alternative

词汇关系

下位词
couter cowter lower cannon of vambrace rerebrace upper cannon of vambrace
衍生词
guard of vambrace
相关词
vantbras vambraced pauldron

词源

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