coat armour

noun

1. coat of arms
2. an emblazoned surcoat

Example Sentences

"I'll have two blue stars and a jack in my coat-armour," thought I, as I bowed to the Duke, who made himself singularly graceful.

From Project Gutenberg

Glaon, in German, was perhaps a kind of coat-armour made of many folds of quilted cloth, such as our gambisons.

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A horn or trumpet borne in this shape in English and German coat-armour.

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By their coat-armour the heralds knew they were of the blood-royal of Thebes; two cousins, the sons of two sisters.

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The term for the whole panoply of knight or steed—armour and coat-armour included.

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