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What is a vambrace?

What is a vambrace? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
  2. The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist. Not in common use in this sense, most scholars preferring the narrower definition, of armor for the lower arm.
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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.

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