Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
vambrace .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Anc. Armor) Armor for the arm; vambrace.
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Examples
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Lonjumeau; a blue waistcoat turned up with red, and with bell buttons, a plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the
Les Miserables 2008
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In the next course both failed to encounter, but in the sixth Quiñones encountered the German in the joint of his left vantbrace, and the iron passed half through without breaking, while the shaft broke in the middle, and the German failed to encounter.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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Don thy vantbrace and helmet, and thy steel casque, and mask thy face.
With Spurs of Gold Heroes of Chivalry and their Deeds Frances Nimmo Greene 1885
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His shield was pierced, his vantbrace cleft and split,
Jerusalem Delivered Torquato Tasso 1569
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_ and his right vantbrace was torn off, but the lance was not broken.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various
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a plaque like a vantbrace, knee-breeches of green leather, oaths to the
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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