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jambeau

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈd͡ʒæm.boʊ/Part of speech nounSorted aabejmuStarts with JEnds with U0 clues
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Definitions

  1. armor plate that protects legs below the knee

Word origin

From Middle English iambeau(s) (compare jamber), from an Anglo-Norman [Term?] derivative of Old French jambe (“leg”): compare Old French jambiere. See jamb (noun). Compare lamboy(s).

Used in a sentence

  • The mortall steele despiteously entayld / Deepe in their flesh, quite through the yron walles, / That a large purple streme adown their giambeux falles.
  • [He suspected] a chink in his hinder jambeau, for there was a trickling at the back of his leg, although he felt no pain.
  • Jambeaus and sollerets hung loose from his shaky ankles. Cuisses and brassards were bashed as by countless bludgeons. Under a shirt of chain mail, the man's chest was caved in and panting.

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