coat armour

British  

noun

1. coat of arms

2. an emblazoned surcoat

---

Example Sentences

“You will have to have special Feasts,” interrupted Kay, “at Pentecost and so on, when all the knights come to dinner and say what they have done. It will make them want to fight in this new way of yours, if they are going to recite about it afterwards. And Merlyn could write their names in their places by magic, and their coat armour could be engraved over their sieges. It would be grand!”

From Literature

The cap upon his head is red, and so also is the ground of the coat armour.’”

From Project Gutenberg

For this action he was enriched by Rhys, prince of South Wales, with several estates, and permitted to bear, as coat armour, a castle, three scaling-ladders, and a bloody spear.

From Project Gutenberg

Every alteration, however slight, produces a new coat, and thus the principal advantage of coat armour—its hereditary character—is sacrificed.

From Project Gutenberg

Gentlemen of blood perfect, and coat armour imperfect; the ‘yonger blouds’ of a house, of which the elder line has failed after a lineal succession of five generations.

From Project Gutenberg