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BRASSET
Definition of BRASSET
noun
Alternative form of brassard (“armour for the arm”).
BRASSARD
noun
An item of plate armor that protects the arm.
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Where it comes from
Attested since at least 1676 for arm-armour (see brassard). Application to helmets dates to at least the 1840s, of obscure origin, perhaps a misinterpretation: an early mention in Alphonso Wood's 1845 Class-book of Botany defines it broadly ("Eng. brasset signifies a helmet or target", i.e. shield), and around this time antiquarians spread mistaken definitions of several other armor terms (e.g. manefaire, passguard).
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Word DNA
How it is built
Same root, BRASSARD · 1 relative in the game
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
BRASSET in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 140, 7 October 2026. Nobody has seen it on a board for 33 days.
First ever to find it
on Day 140, 7 October 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
BRASSET starts with B and ends with T. Sorted, its letters read ABERSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Same letters, different word
3 other words use exactly these letters. Worth knowing at the board: an anagram fits a grid the same way.
Words that start BRASSE
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found BRASSET?
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