war shirt
noun
a piece of armor worn to protect the upper body in battle; generally a mail shirt.
war shirts
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pluralof war shirt.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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They gave him war shirts, bows and arrows, shields, spears, white robes, and many curious things.
From Blackfoot Lodge Tales The Story of a Prairie People by George Bird Grinnell
Donned their war shirts, and girded on their swords Over ringed mail, rode, heroes, to the fight.
From Song and Legend from the Middle Ages by Porter Lander MacClintock
The chiefs painted their bodies, donned their war shirts, sharpened their tomahawks, tipped their arrows, and tightened their bowstrings.
From Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children by Mabel Powers
