plate armor

noun

1. armor made of thin, flat, shaped pieces of wrought iron or steel.
2. any armor composed of, or having as an exterior surface, tough, stiff, flat pieces, large or small, of various materials, as iron, steel, or horn.

Word History and Origins

Origin of plate armor¹

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

So, one of the teams wore chain-mail ulsters, and the other wore plate-armor made of my new Bessemer steel.

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The point hit the chest of the man coming through the air but it stopped as though the man had been wearing plate armor.

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Then slowly the whole figure of a man in complete plate-armor emerged on the deck.

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The plate armor of little Philip IV is stamped with lions and castles, eagles and spears.

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I saw then that both the chain mail and the plate armor had been pierced over the breast.

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