Brassart

(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:14:03

Bras"sart (?), n. [F. brassard, fr. bras arm. See Brace, n.]

Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries, of many parts.

 

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