The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brassart \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.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of brassard English)
Wikipedia
Brassart may refer to:
- Johannes Brassart, a composer of the Renaissance
- A brassard, an item of military dress or armor
- Madame Brassart
Usage examples of "brassart".
Your brother, the High Lord, and I will not have your thews to help us bear the weight of plate in the coming battle, so we will wear only helms and cuirasses, plus gorgets, shoulderpieces, brassarts and kneecops, with our swords slung on our backs.
Your brother, the High Lord, and I will not have your thews to help us bear the weight of plate in the coming battle, so we will wear only helms and cuirasses, plus gorgets, shoulder pieces, brassarts and knee-cops, with our swords slung on our backs.
He cinched the dirk belt with its depending skirt of mail round her slender waist, then thrust the heavy dirk into its frog, buckled the brassarts about her upper arms and the shoulder pieces above them.
Then three spare cords should be carried for each bow, with a great store of arrow-heads, besides the brigandines of chain mail, the wadded steel caps, and the brassarts or arm-guards, which were the proper equipment of the archer.