Definitions for brassard

brassard bras·sard

Spelling: [bras-ahrd, bruh-sahrd]
IPA: /ˈbræs ɑrd, brəˈsɑrd/

Brassard is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 128 anagrams from letters in brassard (aabdrrss).

Definitions for brassard

noun

  1. a decorative cloth band, often braided or tasseled, worn around the upper arm, as by military personnel to signify a particular group, regiment, etc.
  2. Also, brassart [bras-ahrt, bruh-sahrt] /ˈbræs ɑrt, brəˈsɑrt/ (Show IPA). a piece of plate armor for the arm.

Origin of brassard

1820-30; French, equivalent to bras arm (see brace) + -ard -ard

Examples for brassard

As his left side was turned toward them, the enemy could perfectly see his brassard.

It took very little time to round them up, cut a cross in the hair on their backs and place a brassard round their ears.

I declare I hardly dare go into the shops with the Red Cross brassard on my arm.

So popular was the last-named corps that many fictitious members were soon arrested for bearing its brassard.

Hazard alone discovered the brassard (armlet) plot, and the fidelity of Dombrowski disclosed that of Vaysset.

One brassard, who lived up the Murray River, seems to have been a frequent offender.

He wore the Red Cross brassard on the sleeve of his cassock and he carried the Host in a little bag of purple silk.

The soldier from whom his brassard was taken was considered dead.

Word Value for brassard
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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