Also brassart. [a. F. brassard, f. bras arm; see -ARD.]
1. Armor for the upper part of the arm. (Only Hist.)
1830. G. P. R. James, Darnley, x. 47/1. This brassard is a little too close.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 122. Brassarts connect the shoulder with the elbow-pieces.
1866. Fortn. Rev., 1 Sept., 152. Talbot is wearing brassards and a tabard.
2. A badge worn on the arm; an armlet.
1870. Daily News, 21 Sept., 5/6. Brassards seem to be obtainable for the asking.
1879. Fife-Cookson, Armies of Balkans, vii. 100. An English doctor who … had the white brassard with the red crescent on his arm.
