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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 fore-arm is covered with the plates of a vambrace which appears from under the hawberk sleeve.
He wore squash togs splotched with sponsors' logos and a wristband the size of a Roman vambrace.
The vambrace is generally rigid, either a solid tube or hinged on the outside and fastened on the inside by straps or hooks.
The vambrace features a rolled edge and carries the same design as the proceeding plates.
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.
Each sought to thrust the narrow point Swiftly into some crack or joint, Or else to stun and overwhelm With blows on vambrace or on helm.

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