vambrace

Armor covering the forearm.


ETYMOLOGY: Middle English vambras, from Anglo-Norman? vauntbras
'Men of Rohan!' he cried. 'Are there no leeches among you? She is hurt, to death maybe, but I deem she yet lives.' And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that was upon his arm before her cold lips, and behold! a little mistwas laid on it hardly to be seen.
The Return of the King: The Battle of the Pelennor Fields


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