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coat armour

noun

  1. coat of arms
  2. an emblazoned surcoat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"I'll have two blue stars and a jack in my coat-armour," thought I, as I bowed to the Duke, who made himself singularly graceful.

Glaon, in German, was perhaps a kind of coat-armour made of many folds of quilted cloth, such as our gambisons.

A horn or trumpet borne in this shape in English and German coat-armour.

By their coat-armour the heralds knew they were of the blood-royal of Thebes; two cousins, the sons of two sisters.

The term for the whole panoply of knight or steed—armour and coat-armour included.

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