browband

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English

A relief on the Arch of Claudius showing helmets with upstanding browbands.

Etymology

From brow +‎ band.

Noun

browband (plural browbands)

  1. Part of a horse's bridle that runs from just under one ear, across the forehead, to just under the other ear, preventing the bridle from sliding down.
  2. A band of fur of a contrasting colour on an animal's brow.
    Diana monkeys are generally black or dark grey, but have a white throat, crescent-shaped browband, ruff and beard.
  3. A band of metal, part of a (person's) helmet or crown, which covers the brow.
    • 2009, Graham Summer, Raffaele D'Amato, Arms and Armour of the Imperial Roman Soldier, Frontline Books, →ISBN, page 111:
      Helmet of Buggenum-Montefortino type, from Anatolia, end of the first century AD [] The browband — riveted to the dome on each side — was part of its reinforcing structure, protecting the legionary from direct blows ...
    • 2012, Robert K. Silverberg, Lord Valentine's Castle: Book One of the Majipoor Cycle, Penguin, →ISBN:
      Of course it was nothing to compare with the authentic crown, with its inlays and chasings of seven different precious metals, its finials of rare gems, its three gleaming diniaba-stones mounted on the browband.

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