Citations:brasset


 * arm armor:


 * 1722, Memoirs of Literature (V), page 436:
 * Their offensive Arms were a Lance and s Sabre. lnstead of a Jacket of Mail, which had been used for a long time, they took for their Defensive Arms, about the Year 1300, a Cuirass, Brassets, Cuisses, Leg-pieces, and Gantlets.
 * this denotes arm armour, as is clearer in a later version of the work:
 * 1732, Archibald Bower, Historia Litteraria, page 458:
 * The usual Arms of the Persians were, a Sabre or cimiter, [...] a Javelin pointed with Iron, the Bow and Arrow, and the Sling, for offensive Weapons; and for defensive, besides Shields and Helmets, they wore Cuirasses, Brassets, and Cuishes.
 * 1750, Noël Antoine Pluche, Spectacle de la Nature: Or, Nature Display'd: Being Discourses on Such Particulars of Natural History as Were Thought Most Proper to Excite the Curiosity, and Form the Minds of Youth ... Tr. from the Original French ..., page 4:
 * ... besides an infinite Variety of others, whose Body is an Assemblage of many little Scales, which dilate by unfolding themselves, or contract by sliding over one another, like Brassets or Cuisses in our old Suits of Armour.
 * 1858, The New Monthly Magazine, page 387:
 * As to the suit of armour - which bore the marks of many a combat - the helmet and its plume, the breastplate, the brassets or arm-pieces, and the gauntlets, they now hung up in the guard-room, and the duchess hoped to see them ...
 * 1901, Tobias Smollett, The Works of Voltaire: The Maid of Orleans (La Pucelle d'Orléans), page 201:
 * But he within illumined fane had placed / His polished cuirass — helm with gold enchased / In charge of squire — with costly brassets too, / The shoulder-belt alone appeared in view / Appendant,


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 * 1868, Ancient and Modern Constantinople. Translated by J. P. Brown, page 82:
 * These consist in casques, bucklers, cuirasses, brassets, standards of the Franks and Latins, who were masters of the city for fifty-nine years, and other similar objects.
 * These consist in casques, bucklers, cuirasses, brassets, standards of the Franks and Latins, who were masters of the city for fifty-nine years, and other similar objects.