chain armor

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Plate, vi, 43; vii, 2, solid armor, as distinguished from the coat of mail, or light chain armor.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund

Icicles hung about my face, and my clothes were as stiff as chain armor.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896 by Various

They lived in the pine-trees, and were fine strong fellows, with little cones on their heads, pine needles for swords, and the handsome russet scales for chain armor.

From Lulu's Library, Volume II by Alcott, Louisa May

But because the sons of Kings eat not with the outcasts, the Rana entered after, clothed in chain armor of blue steel, and having greeted him, bid him to the sight of that Treasure.

From The ninth vibration and other stories by Beck, L. Adams (Lily Adams)

The next moment the ram butted into the Brooklyn's starboard gangway; but she was so effectually protected by chain armor that the Manassas glanced off and disappeared in the darkness.

From Elsie at Viamede by Finley, Martha