Meaning of gardebras | Babel Free

Definitions

A piece of armor which protects the arm.

Examples

“The gardebras here probably implies the whole armour for the arms, consisting of pauldrons, brassarts, elbow-pieces, and vambraces, though there is a gardebras of the more antient kind so formed as to screw on the bridle-arm […]”

“The Bishop's silver-gilt "wardebras," the gardebras, or bracer, to protect the left arm, was of singularly costly material.”

“The gardebras was a separate piece which overlaid and protected the junctures of the armor at the shoulder and elbow.”

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