I saw even Joscelin smile, and raise one hand in salute, steel vambrace flashing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

I think the interviewer is writing for people who don't know what a merlon or a vambrace are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malazan at 10: An old interview with Steven Erikson] Reference

And he held the bright-burnished vambrace that was upon his arm before her cold tips, and behold!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

Yet on this opposite hemisphere, a glance at instruments on his vambrace confirmed the findings made by the robot.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inconstant Star]

Pain raced up her arm and blood sprang out where the talons pierced her, for she had no vambrace such as Tarma wore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oathbound]

The oilskin cloth fell by the wayside as he tucked one vambrace under his arm, struggling to force his bleeding left hand into the mesh gauntlet of the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kushiel's Avatar]

Talons like ivory knives bit into the leather of Tarma's vambrace; the wings fanned the air for a heartbeat more, then the bird settled on Tarma's forearm, regal and gilded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Oathbound]

She was still en deshabille, while the Battlemaster, summoned from the arena, wore a light practice cuirass with vambrace and pauldron for his unshielded right arm and shoulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Golden Torc]

I can't help but it sounds like the author of that article has a few sour grapes to eat and never read a Fantasy book before, or he would not stumble over words like merlon and vambrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Malazan at 10: An old interview with Steven Erikson] Reference

A passage such as this one is much more interested in setting up Elkin's signature lyric rhythms and, in this case, doling out strange and, in context, goofy words -- "vambrace and cuisee and greave" -- than in establishing Elkin's ability to dispense "some lovely little selection of words.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Fiction] Reference

124 They spared not cors, armyt, nor yet vambrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medallion Vulcan | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Sir Thomas Percy met with little better success, for his shield was split, his vambrace torn and he himself wounded slightly in the side.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Company]

At these words the cordelier's hand leaped up from his breast, his crucifix dagger glittered bright, he tore his frock from D'Aulon's grip, leaving a rag of it in his hand, and smote, aiming at the squire where the gorget joins the vambrace.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monk of Fife] Reference

His quarrel was no matter for fisticuffs; so, being attired in helmet, vambrace rere-brace, gauntlets, and greaves out of the armoury, where many such suits were stored, I met him in a certain quiet court behind the castle, where quarrels were usually voided.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Monk of Fife] Reference

Now it nicked him in the shoulder where the vambrace was buckled to the corselet; now it bored a shrewd hole under the light brissart, and blood followed; now, with fatal dexterity, it darted through the visor, and came back to the recover deeply tinged with blood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burlesques] Reference

A good time they continued this exercise, and then cast themselves in a ring, dauncing in such severall Postures, and singing and yelling out such hellish notes and screeches: being strangely painted, every one his quiver of arrowes, and at his backe a club: on his arme a Fox or an Otters skinne, or some such matter for his vambrace: their heads and shoulders painted red, with oyle and Pocones mingled together, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference

And in my vambrace put my withered braunes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)] Reference

Today's words Word don't know: bioweapon, handsfuls, vambrace, debriding, coatsleeve, planetside, terraforming.    From Wordnik.com.  [misery is the river of the world. everybody row.] Reference

A good time they continued this exercise, and then cast themselves in a ring, dauncing in such severall Postures, and singing and yelling out such hellish notes and screeches: being strangely painted, every one his quiver of arrowes, and at his backe a club: on his arme a Fox or an Otters skinne, or some such matter for his vambrace: their heads and shoulders painted red, with oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet like colour made an exceeding handsome shew, his Bow in his hand, and the skinne of a Bird with her wings abroad dryed, tyed on his head, a peece of copper, a white shell, a long feather, with a small rattle growing at the tayles of their snaks tyed to it, or some such like toy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain John Smith] Reference

A good time they continued this exercise, and then cast themselues in a ring, dauncing in such severall Postures, and singing and yelling out such hellish notes and screeches; being strangely painted, every one his quiver of Arrowes, and at his backe a club; on his arme a Fox or an Otters skinne, or some such matter for his vambrace; their heads and shoulders painted red, with Oyle and Pocones mingled together, which Scarlet-like colour made an exceeding handsome shew; his Bow in his hand, and the skinne of a Bird with her wings abroad dryed, tyed on his head, a peece of copper, a white shell, a long feather, with a small rattle growing at the tayles of their snaks tyed to it, or some such like toy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles: With the Names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from Their First Beginning, Ano: 1584. To This Present 1624. With the Procedings of Those Severall Colonies and the Accidents That Befell Them in All Their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of All Those Countryes, Their Commodities, People, Government, Customes, and Religion Yet Knowne. Divided into Sixe Bookes. By Captaine Iohn Smith, Sometymes Governour in Those Countryes & Admirall of New England] Reference