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Vambrace

The piece designed to protect the arm from the elbow to the wrist.

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Cannon 76% connected

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Cataphract 70% connected

Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.

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Bangle noun · 78% connection

An ornamental circlet, of glass, gold, silver, or other material, worn by women in India and Africa, and in some other countries, upon…

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Bib noun · 78% connection

A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.

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Bracelet noun · 78% connection

An ornamental band or ring, for the wrist or the arm; in modern times, an ornament encircling the wrist, worn by women or girls.

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Brassart noun · 78% connection

Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and 16th centuries,…

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Carpal adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the carpus, or wrist.

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Carpus noun · 78% connection

The wrist; the bones or cartilages between the forearm, or antibrachium, and the hand or forefoot; in man, consisting of eight short b…

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Chasuble noun · 78% connection

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass, consisting, in the Roman Catholic Church, of a broad, flat, back piece, and a na…

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Cocoon noun · 78% connection

silky envelope spun by the larvae of many insects to protect pupas and by spiders to protect eggs

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Corsage noun · 78% connection

a flower or small arrangement of flowers worn by a person as a personal ornament. Typically worn by women on special occasions (as, at…

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Cubit noun · 78% connection

The forearm; the ulna, a bone of the arm extending from elbow to wrist.

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Cuff noun · 78% connection

Any ornamental appendage at the wrist, whether attached to the sleeve of the garment or separate; especially, in modern times, such an…

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Drip noun · 78% connection

(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

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Drip mold noun · 78% connection

(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

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Drip mould noun · 78% connection

(architecture) a projection from a cornice or sill designed to protect the area below from rainwater (as over a window or doorway)

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Foot noun · 78% connection

The terminal part of the leg of man or an animal; esp., the part below the ankle or wrist; that part of an animal upon which it rests…

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Forearm noun · 78% connection

That part of the arm or fore limb between the elbow and wrist; the antibrachium.

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Gauntlet noun · 78% connection

A long glove, covering the wrist.

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Glove noun · 78% connection

A cover for the hand, or for the hand and wrist, with a separate sheath for each finger. The latter characteristic distinguishes the g…

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