greave

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The gold clasp of the greave was still around one knee.

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  1. noun Leg armor worn below the knee. Often used in the plural.

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  1. Sing. of Middle English greves, from Old French, shins.

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  1. from Middle English greve, bush, from Anglo-Saxon græf or græfe (nominative singular not recorded), a bush; hardly connected with grāf, a grove, though Spenser seems to use greave in the 3d quotation as a variant of grove. Its early modern use is poetical and variable.
  2. from Middle English greve, greyve, greave, a ditch, trench, from Anglo-Saxon (Old Northumbrian) grœfe, a pit, cave, = Ieel. gröf, a pit, hole, also a grave: see grave.
 

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