Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Brassart \Bras"sart\, n. [F. brassard, fr. bras arm. See
   {Brace}, n.]
   Armor for the arm; -- generally used for the whole arm from
   the shoulder to the wrist, and consisting, in the 15th and
   16th centuries, of many parts.