Vambraceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From 中期英語 vambrace, vauntbras, from Anglo-Norman vambras, avantbras.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvæm.bɹeɪs/

名詞

vambrace (plural vambraces)

1. (historical) The piece of armor designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.
2. (historical) The pieces of armor protecting the arm from the shoulder to the wrist.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons‎, page 22:

     To the cuirass were buckled the armour for the shoulders and arms, the first called Pouldrons, the second Brassarts, Garde bras, les avant bras, and corruptly in English, Vambraces. The vambraces included all the defence for the arms, from the pouldrons to the wrist. At the joint, or bending of the arm, the vambraces were cut obliquely, […]

   • 2003, John Marco, The Devil's Armour, 2010, Electronic Edition, unnumbered page:

     Thorin reached out for the vambrace and gauntlet that made up the armour's right arm.

使用する際の注意点

The narrower definition (protection for the lower arm) is preferred by academic authors, but may be less common in general use.

下位語

• (protection from elbow to wrist): couter, cowter, lower cannon of vambrace
• (protection from shoulder to wrist): couter, cowter, lower cannon of vambrace, rerebrace, upper cannon of vambrace

派生語

関連する語

• vantbras
• vambraced

参考

• pauldron

Further reading

• vambrace on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Armour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Plate armour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Components of medieval armour on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源

From Anglo-Norman vambras, avantbras; equivalent to avant +‎ brace.

発音

• IPA: /ˈvambraːs(ə)/, /ˈvau̯mbraːs(ə)/, /ˈvan(t)braːs(ə)/, /ˈvau̯n(t)braːs(ə)/

名詞

vambrace (plural vambraces)

1. Lower arm armour; vambrace.

派生した語

• English: vambrace, vanbrace, vantbrace, vantbrass

参照

• “vaum-brāce, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-11.