plate armour

British  

noun

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 armour made of thin metal plates, which superseded mail during the 14th century

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plate armour

The shirt is also of chain-mail, while the arms and legs are protected by plate armour.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé

The body is also protected, in parts, with plate armour.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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 William Henry Hamilton Rogers

Brass′arts, the brass pieces which, in plate armour, protected the upper part of the arms, and united the shoulder and elbow pieces.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Yet the same audience would be wholly undisturbed by anachronisms touching the introduction of silken stockings, or velvet robes, the pattern of plate armour, or the fashion of weapons.

From A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character by Dutton Cook

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