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Chain armour

noun

(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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... all cavalry, superbly mounted, dressed in chain armour, and carrying arms of every description, had been sent down ostensibly as a reinforcement to us by their Ameer, Dost Mohammed Khan of Kabul, but really as spies to watch our movements, and report the state of affairs to their chief. They made a great ...

— A Narrative Of The Siege Of Delhi - With An Account Of The Mutiny At Ferozepore In 1857 • Charles John Griffiths

... piscina attached to the N. pier of the chancel arch. Some of the windows are Dec., and a lancet in the S. wall has the interior arch foliated. The remains of a second piscina are observable on the sill of one of the chancel windows. Under a recess in the chancel is an effigy of a knight in chain armour, supposed to be Sir William Domer or Dummer (temp. Edward I.). The Jacobean ...

— Somerset • G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade

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