What is "armguards"

Usage examples of "armguards".

Trailed by his bugler, the squadron colors and a couple of supernumerary junior noncoms, Gaib was leading his charger, which appeared on the verge of throwing a shoe, toward a still-unpacked traveling forge, his lips moving in curses at well-bred bumpkins who carried their feelings ill balanced on their armguards and gave not one damn for his military rank, rendering him what little deference they did only because he was heir to a Kindred vahrohnos.

Fitted armguards for the forearms went on next, and greaves for the shins.

Heavy sandals laced to the knee covered his lower legs, and bright gold and red-enameled armguards encased his arms from wrist to the elbow.

He was wearing Emerald light-infantry armor, a tunic of three-ply greatbeast hide boiled in wax and vinegar and fastened with bronze studs, armguards of the same and high-strapped sandals.

He wore a knee-length chainmail hauberk and steel strips on leather armguards, a plain double-edged sword at his waist.

Greaves with hinged knee-covers went over her lower legs, and armguards of bullhide flared at the elbow on her forearms.