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jambeau
/ˈd͡ʒæm.boʊ/
noun 2
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2VERB + JAMBEAU
hinder
PREP.
in
Definitions
noun
1
A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave.
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.
2
Any of the spikefishes of the genus Parahollardia.
Spotted spikefishes and jambeaus are diamond shaped, about as long as they are high, with the greatest depth occurring at the tips of the stout first dorsal and anal spines, near the midbody. The small caudal fin is broadly rounded.
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noun — armor plate that protects legs below the knee
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The mortall steele despiteously entayld / Deepe in their flesh, quite through the yron walles, / That a large purple streme adown their giambeux falles.
Wiktionary02
[He suspected] a chink in his hinder jambeau, for there was a trickling at the back of his leg, although he felt no pain.
Wiktionary03
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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