vambraced
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]vambraced (not comparable)
- (especially heraldry) Wearing a vambrace.
- 1899, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-armour, Showing which Arms in Use at the Moment are Borne by Legal Authority, page 25:
- Sir George Carlyon Hughes Armstrong, first Baronet, [...] He bears for Arms : Gules, three dexter arms vambraced argent, hands closed proper ; on a canton of the second three pallets azure; […] Charles Randal Armstrong-MacDonell, Esquire, [...] 2 and 3 gules, three dexter arms vambraced and embowed proper, the hands clenched also proper, […]