plate armour

British  

noun

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 armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century

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plate armour

And, after all, if a man finds that plate armour is uncomfortable, that is no reason why he should not delight in seeing other people wearing it, and wearing it with dignity.

From Far Off Things by Arthur Machen

His arms are in plate armour, p. 12and his body in a shortened hauberk, kept from pressing on his chest, by means of the plastron, or breast-plate, within. 

From The History and Antiquities of Horsham by Howard Dudley

In the south aisle of the chancel of Chewton-Mendip church, on a high-tomb are the recumbent effigies of a knight and lady,—the knight in chain and plate armour, with bascinet, mail-gorget, baudrick and spurs.

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

Scarcely less wide is the difference between the plate armour of an old English baron, and the simple cuirass of a covenanter!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various

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 Arthur Machen