vambrace
IPA: væmbrˈeɪs
noun
- (historical) The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
- (historical) The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist.
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Examples of "vambrace" in Sentences
- I saw even Joscelin smile, and raise one hand in salute, steel vambrace flashing.
- I think the interviewer is writing for people who don't know what a merlon or a vambrace are.
- Yet on this opposite hemisphere, a glance at instruments on his vambrace confirmed the findings made by the robot.
- The oilskin cloth fell by the wayside as he tucked one vambrace under his arm, struggling to force his bleeding left hand into the mesh gauntlet of the other.
- Talons like ivory knives bit into the leather of Tarma's vambrace; the wings fanned the air for a heartbeat more, then the bird settled on Tarma's forearm, regal and gilded.
- I can't help but it sounds like the author of that article has a few sour grapes to eat and never read a Fantasy book before, or he would not stumble over words like merlon and vambrace.
- Now it nicked him in the shoulder where the vambrace was buckled to the corselet; now it bored a shrewd hole under the light brissart, and blood followed; now, with fatal dexterity, it darted through the visor, and came back to the recover deeply tinged with blood.
- A passage such as this one is much more interested in setting up Elkin's signature lyric rhythms and, in this case, doling out strange and, in context, goofy words -- "vambrace and cuisee and greave" -- than in establishing Elkin's ability to dispense "some lovely little selection of words."
- Betting the knight, his money on the armor, the intricate chain mail like wire net or metal scrim, being's effulgent Maginot line, his stake on the weighted mace and plate mittens, on the hinged couters and poleyns, on vambrace and cuisee and greave, banging the breast-plate and all the jewelry of battle for timbre and pitch like a jerk slamming doors and kicking tires in a used car lot.
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