bracer

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The news that Britain�for 200 years "ruler of the waves"�was now a third-rate naval power sent M.P.s racing to the downstairs bar for a bracer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Royal Navy's success in scotching France's sea power before the Axis could get it was a national bracer.

From Time Magazine Archive

At week's end Turkey's Foreign Minister S�kr� Saracoglu made a speech indicating that, even in Cairo, Anthony Eden was a bracer.

From Time Magazine Archive

But not for long: the Government realized that a show is as much of a wartime bracer as a whiskey-&-soda, soon permitted every theatre in London to stay open till 10:45 or 11 p.m.

From Time Magazine Archive

Alsvindr gnawed on his bit impatiently, and Anya said, “Hang on,” as she pulled her bracer from where it was fastened to her quiver strap.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack