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the armor for the part of your arm nobody remembers exists until it gets stabbed
means A piece of plate armor that protects the upper arm, between the shoulder and the elbow.
from From Old French arrere-bras, literally "rear arm" — arrere (behind, from Latin ad retro, "to the back") plus bras (arm, from Latin bracchium). It's the back-of-the-upper-arm counterpart to the vambrace (avant-bras, "fore arm"), which guards the forearm. So the names quietly map your arm front to back, even if hardly anyone remembers the rerebrace was ever there.
- location
- covers the upper arm, shoulder to elbow
- name origin
- from old french meaning arm-guard, doubled up
- partner piece
- pairs with the vambrace below the elbow
- medieval era
- key plate armor in 14th-century knight kits
- obscurity
- so forgotten it stumps most armor experts