Definitions for vambraces

vambraces vam·brace

Spelling: [vam-breys]
IPA: /ˈvæm breɪs/

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).

Definitions for vambraces

noun

  1. a piece of plate armor for the forearm; a lower cannon. Compare rerebrace.
  2. plate armor for the arm, usually including upper and lower cannons and a couter.

Origin of vambraces

1300-50; Middle English va(u)mbras Anglo-French (a)vantbras, equivalent to avant- fore- (see avaunt) + bras arm (see brace)

Examples for vambraces

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.

Word Value for vambraces
Scrable

17

Words with friends

21

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