What's the origin of the word brace?

Question

in the sense of scoring 2 goals for example. "scoring a brace of goals"

Answer 1

brace - a pair.

[Middle English, from Old French, the two arms, from Vulgar Latin *bracia, from Latin brācchia, pl. of brācchium, arm, from Greek brakhīōn, upper arm; see mregh-u- in Indo-European roots. V., partly from Old French bracier, from Old French brace, the two arms.]

Answer 2

From the old French bracier referring to a coupling (like an EMbrace) hence it means a couple. It apparently came into Middle English and has origins in the Greek and Latin words for 'arms'.

Answer 3

could be a hunting term
a brace of pheasants.


scratch that just checked -
a brace is a pair if two similar things.
So goals or pheasants both good

Answer 4

well i can only tell you the origin concerning what you put in your mouth to straighten your teeth: brace means "act differently in a nice way i.e. become mature" so if you wear a brace you change your teeth in a nice way... =)