body armour

noun

1. protective covering used to prevent injury to the body

Example Sentences

They had no body armour; their shields were small round bucklers; their weapons were bows and daggers.

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The argument is that a man with a large shield needs no body armour, or uses the shield because he has no body armour.

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As we have shown, these great helms were not attached to the body armour and were thus liable to be struck off in battle.

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Over the body armour was a garment, called by Chaucer “the cote-armoure, as white as is the lily floure.”

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Many of the figures, both Shardina and Pulesatha, wear body-armour of some kind.

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