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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. ...
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vant- prefix, representing AF. vant-, aphetic f. avant- avant-: see vant-brace, -guard, -ward. In a number of compounds the t was elided, as vanbrace, -chase, -courier, -guard, etc. Before labials the n by assimilation became m, as in vambrace, vampey, vamplate, vamward; and a further reduction appe...
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