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- variant form of gardbrace and/or gardebras
- 1854, Henry Whitelock Torrens, James Hume (ed.), A Selection from the Writings, Prose, and Poetical, of the Late Henry W. Torrens: With a Biographical Memoir, page 49:
- Lord Scales then threw away his lance and cast off his bever from his helmet as also his† gardebrace, and wambrace, as did also the Bastard, but not so speedily as his opponent “who sought hym ferthir on the grounde," or passed
- † Tilting armour for the shoulder and fore-arm.
- 1968, Paul Martin, Armour and Weapons, Random House Business
- At the same time Jean de Bernède, Esquire, bought “one cuirass complete, one leg-armour complete, one pair of vambraces, one pair of gardebraces, one sallet, gorget and one pair of gussets”.
- 2015, Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Battle of Evernight, Open Road Media (→ISBN)
- Amongst them sauntered the Each Uisge in field armour, a sculpture in metal: the curved ridge of the gardebraces jutted from his shoulders on either side, meeting the rippled shoulder-defences of the pauldrons at a smooth seam.