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  • noun Plural form of brassard.

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Examples

  • "It was common for stretcher-bearers to remove the white brassards they wore, which made them easy targets for enemy marksmen."

    WWI Ambulance Research Victoria Janssen 2009

  • This batch preferred white hoods to peace brassards, though.

    365 tomorrows » One Step Forward… : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • This batch preferred white hoods to peace brassards, though.

    365 tomorrows » 2006 » December : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006

  • There were no medics at 25,000 feet, no men wearing Red Cross brassards to rush to the aid of shot-up comrades.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • There were no medics at 25,000 feet, no men wearing Red Cross brassards to rush to the aid of shot-up comrades.

    Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006

  • At the junction with Marine Road he saw the why of that: a kind of a picket had formed, manned by respectable gentlemen of the Georgius Rex with brassards on their sleeves, and a couple Baden-Poweller boys in uniforms and hats.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She stood very sternly, staring at the men and the women too with their Red Cross brassards.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • At the junction with Marine Road he saw the why of that: a kind of a picket had formed, manned by respectable gentlemen of the Georgius Rex with brassards on their sleeves, and a couple Baden-Poweller boys in uniforms and hats.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • She stood very sternly, staring at the men and the women too with their Red Cross brassards.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

  • Then he removed the epaulets, brassards, and elbow pieces that covered his arms.

    The Day of the Tempest Rabe, Jean 1997

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