plate armour
Britishnoun
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The golden age of plate armour is the middle of the fifteenth century, when the design was light and graceful, and at the same time fully protective.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various
The body is also protected, in parts, with plate armour.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
What associations it must have for soldiers; even to the man of peace it suggests plate armour, the listed field and battles long ago.…
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William 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
As soon as Barbicane had invented a new projectile, Nicholl invented a new plate armour.
From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules
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