Citations:brassart


 * 1780, "Zadig" (originally by Voltaire), chapter XVIII, in The Novelist's Magazine, volume 2:
 * [page 35:] The plumes of their helmets, the studs of their brassarts, and the rings of which their armour was composed, flew afar off, by the force of a thousand precipitate blows.
 * [page 41:] His head being guarded by a helmet, his breast and back by his cuirass, and his arms by his brassarts, he entertained no doubt but that he should easily obtain the advantage over a champion in a cap and gown.