body armour
noun
protective covering used to prevent injury to the body
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The body-armour (C11) may have been brought to Spain by Philip.
Spanish Arms and ArmourAlbert F. Calvert
Occasionally the misricorde was fixed to the body-armour by a staple; or, more rarely, it was connected with a gypcire or pouch.
To a soldiery with whom body-armour appears to have been a secondary consideration, the Shield would be of the first consequence.
Ancient Armour and Weapons in EuropeJohn Hewitt
From Giraldus Cambrensis we learn that the Irish in the twelfth century wore no body-armour.
Ancient Armour and Weapons in EuropeJohn Hewitt
It has been held to mean the kind of cloth called "muster-develers:" a body-armour seems implied.
Ancient Armour and Weapons in EuropeJohn Hewitt