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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Quotation dates: 1429, 1678
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(Vantbrasar,) Vambrasar, Wambrasser, n. [Braser n.1 a piece of armour covering the arm.] A piece of armour for the forearm. = Vantbras n. —1429 Acts II 18/2 (see Rerebrasar n.).
Vambrasaris 1678 Argyll Rec. 476.
A man curious in our antiquities might in this hoste finde explications of the strange pieces of armour mentioned in our old laws, such as bosnet, iron hat, gorget, pesane, wambrassers and reerbrassers, panns, leg-splents, and the like, above what any occasion in the Lowlands would have afforded for several hundreds of yeers
