vanbrace, -bras
varr. vam-, vantbrace.
| a 1470 H. Parker Dives & Pauper (W. de W. 1496) x. vi. 379/2 We sholde take with us rerebras and vanbras & gloues of plate. 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch., Hen. V, ccxviii, Alanzon breakes the Blow, which the King first Made...and locks his Hilt In Harrie's Vanbrace. 1816 Monthly Mag. XLI. 330 Their arms and legs vanbras and cuisses sheath. |