plate armour

British  

noun

1. armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century

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plate armour

Just by the lectern at the north-east corner of the nave is a recumbent effigy of a knight wearing armour of the period when chain-mail was being exchanged for plate armour.

From The Evolution of an English Town by Home, Gordon

One, a knight with hair polled, in full plate armour, and collar of S.S.

From The Strife of the Roses and Days of the Tudors in the West by Rogers, William Henry Hamilton

In this N. transept is the effigy of a knight in plate armour under a foliated canopy, said to be that of Joel de Bradney, d.

From Somerset by Wade, G. W.

Some of them had overlapping tongues of bright metal fastened on their clothes, others were in chain mail from head to foot, others were in heavy plate armour.

From The Angels of Mons The Bowmen and Other Legends of the War by Machen, Arthur

Azure, a griffin or, about to tear, and ramping upon, a warrior, completely armed in plate armour, in bend dexter, across the lower part of the shield.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 104, October 25, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various