coat armour

How to use coat armour in a sentence

• "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.

  The Yeoman Adventurer | George W. Gough

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

  Early Travels in Palestine | Arculf et al.

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

  The Manual of Heraldry; Fifth Edition | Anonymous

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

  Chaucer for Children | Mrs. H. R. Haweis

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

  Chaucer for Children | Mrs. H. R. Haweis