jambeau

1. (historical, chiefly in the plural) A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave.Examples: "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."Synonyms: jamber, jamb, jambe, jambarthistoricalin-plural