body armour

noun

They had no body armour; their shields were small round bucklers; their weapons were bows and daggers.

The argument is that a man with a large shield needs no body armour, or uses the shield because he has no body armour.

As we have shown, these great helms were not attached to the body armour and were thus liable to be struck off in battle.

Over the body armour was a garment, called by Chaucer “the cote-armoure, as white as is the lily floure.”

Many of the figures, both Shardina and Pulesatha, wear body-armour of some kind.

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