vambraced

English

Etymology

vambrace +‎ -ed

Adjective

vambraced (not comparable)

  1. (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, […]
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