jambe

Noun

1. A leg, of an animal or person.
   • Lion's jambe, erased, grasping a laurel branch. - 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry: Dictionary of Heraldry:
   • [Image of a human leg in armor.] Crest - A jambe, unarmed, excepting the spur, quarterly, or and sa. - 1844, John Burke, Bernard Burke, Encyclopædia of Heraldry: Or General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland,...
   • If couped or erased at the middle joint, it is not a jambe but a paw, as in the example given under Seal, q.v. Or, a lion's jambe inverted and erased in bend gules—Powis. Gules, three lion's jambes erased and inverted...
2. Synonym of jambeau (“a greave”).
   • […] cuissarts or cuisses were used to shield the thigh, and boots of steel called greaves or jambes were worn upon the leg between the ancle^([sic]) and the knee. We have no doubt that the jambes were found to act well...
   • The spurs are of the goad-form, and the spur-straps are partially covered by the greaves or jambes, which are so formed as to protect the instep and ankle-joints, and are ornamented round the lower edges with a row of...
   • Bainbergs were the precursors of the steel greaves or jambes of the fourteenth century. - 1910, George Clinch, English Costume from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century, page 189:

   Synonyms: jambeau

   Related: jamb