plate armor

American  

noun

1. armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.

2. any armor composed of, or having as an exterior surface, tough, stiff, flat pieces, large or small, of various materials, as iron, steel, or horn.

---

Etymology

Origin of plate armor

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

A very fine drawing on blue paper, lent from the Met, shows the care he lavished on the plate armor: soft ripples of the chain mail, a shimmer of light on the greaves.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

ShotStop Ballistics, which has been around for 30 years, has developed backpack plate armor inserts.

From Washington Times • May 31, 2022

Ironside put on plate armor and used the show’s forged version of Oathkeeper to destroy a shield and cut through a gel replica of a human torso, and what’s not to love about that?

From Salon • Jul. 20, 2019

Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.

From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019

Renly had chosen a woman to carry his banner as well, though Brienne hid face and form behind plate armor that gave no hint of her sex.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin