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

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

Even as it stands, it is a clear, vivid warning and bracer to that man-in-the-street who makes or breaks democracies, seldom reads books, and is this book's ideal reader.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was hard to take this as anything more than a tough old soldier's morale-stiffening bracer for worse ordeals yet to come.

From Time Magazine Archive

She put the bracer on her left forearm, positioning it to keep her sleeve from interfering with her quick draw, but also to cover the tender inside.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack