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Chain armour   /tʃeɪn ˈɑrmər/   Listen
Chain armour

noun
1.
(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings.  Synonyms: chain armor, chain mail, mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail.






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"Chain armour" Quotes from Famous Books



... pretend to be a full account of everything we did and saw. There are many things connected with our journey into Kukuanaland that I should have liked to dwell upon at length, which, as it is, have been scarcely alluded to. Amongst these are the curious legends which I collected about the chain armour that saved us from destruction in the great battle of Loo, and also about the "Silent Ones" or Colossi at the mouth of the stalactite cave. Again, if I had given way to my own impulses, I should have wished to go into the differences, some of which are to my mind very suggestive, between the Zulu ...
— King Solomon's Mines • H. Rider Haggard

... shape a long parallelogram, narrower at the lower end. It is of Purbeck marble, and consists of two stages, the lower having a series of cinquefoiled niches and fourteen figures of Templars in chain armour in different attitudes, for Bishop Cantilupe was Provincial Grand Master of the ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Hereford, A Description - Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See • A. Hugh Fisher

... the Stalls (to his Neighbour). Halloa! There's old Johnnie in chain armour and a helmet. Did you ever see such a rum 'un? Let's make ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 100. February 21, 1891 • Various



Words linked to "Chain armour" :   chain armor, ring mail, brigandine, coat of mail, gusset, suit of armor, Dark Ages, hauberk, Middle Ages, voider, ring armor, body armour, byrnie, ring armour, cataphract, mail, chain mail, body armor, habergeon, suit of armour



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