"jambeau" meaning in English

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          "text": "The mortall steele despiteously entayld / Deepe in their flesh, quite through the yron walles, / That a large purple streme adown their giambeux falles.",
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          "ref": "1984, Julian May, The Nonborn King ; The Adversary, page 200:",
          "text": "[He suspected] a chink in his hinder jambeau, for there was a trickling at the back of his leg, although he felt no pain.",
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          "text": "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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          "text": "After all, a knight is not a knight without his jambeaus and sollerets, […]",
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          "text": "A cuish, knee piece, and jambeau protected their legs. All the armor was hammered out to favor scales […]",
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        "(historical, chiefly in the plural) A piece of armour for the leg (especially below the knee), a greave."
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