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| Date: | 1300-1400 |
| Language: | Old French |
| Origin: | 'two arms', from Latin bracchia, from bracchium 'arm' |
Related topics:1 [countable] something that is used to strengthen or support something, or to make it stiff : 
The miners used special braces to keep the walls from collapsing.
The miners used special braces to keep the walls from collapsing.2 [countable] braces American English a system of metal wires that people, usually children, wear on their teeth to make them grow straight
3 [countable usually plural] American English a metal support that someone with weak legs wears to help them walk [= callipers British English]
4 two long pieces of material that stretch over someone's shoulders and fasten to their trousers at the front and the back to stop them falling down [= suspenders American English]
braces
[plural] British EnglishDC5SLA [countable] one of a pair of signs { } used to show that information written between them should be considered together [↪ bracket]
6 two things of the same type, especially two birds or animals that have been killed for food or sport : a brace of partridge
a brace of something
especially British Englisha brace of partridge
