coat armour
Britishnoun
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coat of arms
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an emblazoned surcoat
Example Sentences
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A tall Crusader in coat armour stood smoking a cigarette and talking to a Savoyard peasant-girl.
From The Sixth Sense A Novel by McKenna, Stephen
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
Next followed mourners, and after them the herald, with the dead man's coat armour, checkered silver and azure.
From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter
In coat armour they must always be represented as full-faced, and not showing one side of it, but both their eyes and both their ears.
From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison
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