coat armour

British  

noun

1. coat of arms

2. an emblazoned surcoat

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coat armour

Each shoot, eager to expand its leaves in the light, ever spreading, forms mass after mass of the beautiful green panoply—the coat armour of the forest, arboreal man's first form of domestic architecture.

From Line and Form (1900) by Crane, Walter

Somerset, exhibits his coat armour quartering Polton, Fissacre, and Speke, and impaling Popham and another coat, viz.,

From Notes and Queries, Number 43, August 24, 1850 by Various

I looked on it, and the names, many of them attested by seals with coat armour, were plain to be read.

From A Monk of Fife by Lang, Andrew

The coat armour was everywhere used, and varied in form and style in almost every centre.

From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew

Here is the complete coat armour of the second Ralph, who died before Ascalon.

From Henrietta Temple A Love Story by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield