The vambrace features a rolled edge and carries the same design as the proceeding plates. |
The vambrace is generally rigid, either a solid tube or hinged on the outside and fastened on the inside by straps or hooks. |
Sir Thomas Percy met with little better success, for his shield was split, his vambrace torn and he himself wounded slightly in the side. |
The vambrace is worn under the sleeve of the hauberk, and not, as in the preceding example, over the mail. |
The fore-arm is covered with the plates of a vambrace which appears from under the hawberk sleeve. |
She herself never uses the word, and I am happy to be corrected by any mounted knights who have seen the movie, but I gather that a vambrace is an armored guard that protects the forearm. |