Etymology

gardebras

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Today it means: A piece of armor which protects the arm. Full definition →

French garde-bras ← Middle English garbrasse
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromgarbrasse
  2. French · borrowed fromgarde-bras
  3. English todaygardebras

Either borrowed from (Middle) French garde-bras, gardebras, or modified (under the influence of that word) from Middle English garbrasse, itself from that (Middle) French word.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.