Vambraces is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.
You can make 446 anagrams from letters in vambraces (aabcemrsv).
1300-50; Middle English va(u)mbras Anglo-French (a)vantbras, equivalent to avant- fore- (see avaunt) + bras arm (see brace)
The vambrace is generally rigid, either a solid tube or hinged on the outside and fastened on the inside by straps or hooks.
The fore-arm is covered with the plates of a vambrace which appears from under the hawberk sleeve.
The vambrace is worn under the sleeve of the hauberk, and not, as in the preceding example, over the mail.