Middle English Dictionary Entry
rēre-brāce n.
Entry Info
| Forms | rēre-brāce n. Also rerebras(e, -brasce, rerbrace, -bras, rirebrace & (?error) rerebrake; pl. rerebraces, etc. & rerebrace, -bras, rerbrace. |
| Etymology | AF |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A piece of armor for the upper arm; also fig.; rerebrace(s and vaumbrace(s, vaumbraces and rerebraces.
Associated quotations
- [ (1340-41) Bill Armourer in Antiq.22150 : Une peire de rerebras & avant bras fourbiz pur le corps le Roi. ]
- (a1370) R.Arms Norwich in Nrf.Archaeol.14302 : Waunbras & rerebrase, Cuters de fer.
- (1375) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.193 : [A breastplate, one pair of] vantbrace [and] rerbrace.
- (1392) Will York in Sur.Soc.4171 : Lego sibi..unum bonum par cerotecarum de plate, cum vambrase et rerebrase.
- (1393) Plea & Mem.R.Lond.Gildh.213 : [One pair of] vaumbras [and] rerebras, [4 s.; one pair of gauntelets of plate, 3 s.].
- (1400) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)7.73 : [A] cas [for a basin, a] vambrace, [a] rerebrace.
- (1400) Inquis.Miscel.(PRO)7.78 : [3 pairs of gloves of] plate, [7] vaumbraces, [2 pairs of] rerbraces.
- (1411) EEWills19/5 : A basynet with a ventaile, a pare of vambrace and rerebrace, [etc.].
- (1416) MSS Middleton in HMC104 : [To Simon Talbot, a pair of white] plates [with the] pauns, vauntbrases, et rirebraces..et quysshews ad eosdem plates competentibus.
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)3.67 : Þer wer woiders frettid in þe maille..Vauntbras with wynges, & rerebras þer-to.
- c1440(?a1400) Morte Arth.(1) (Thrn)2566 : An alet enamelde he oches in sondire, Bristes þe rerebrace with the bronde ryche.
- (1449) Metham AC (Gar 141)987 : Hys rerebracys Were depeyntyd with blwe, hangyng ful of lacys.
- a1450(a1338) Mannyng Chron.Pt.1 (Lamb 131)10030 : Hym self was armed fynly wel Wyþ..Vaumbras & rerbras, wyþ coters of stel.
- (a1470) Malory Wks.(Win-C)230/10 : The knyght..gyrdis to sir Gawayne and awkewarde hym strykes and brastyth the rerebrace and the vawmbrace bothe.
- a1486 Jousts of Peace (Mrg M 775)40 : Abilment for the Justus of the Pees: A helme well stuffyd..A Rerebrace [vr. rerebrake] with a rolle of ledyr well stuffid..A rerebrasce, a moton.
- a1500(c1410) Dives & P.(Htrn 270)2.310 : Sent Powil byddith þat we schuldyn takyn to us rerebras and vaumbras.
- a1500 Treat.GBattle (Hrl 1706)425 : Seynt Powle byddeth you take vambrace and rerebrace and gloves of plate, that ys, goode occupacions and besynes in gostly werkes eyther bodyly.