plate armor
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ShotStop Ballistics, which has been around for 30 years, has developed backpack plate armor inserts.
From Washington Times • May 31, 2022
Ironside put on plate armor and used the show’s forged version of Oathkeeper to destroy a shield and cut through a gel replica of a human torso, and what’s not to love about that?
From Salon • Jul. 20, 2019
Or as heavy, defensive tessellations of metal, like the plate armor of soldiers in medieval Europe or Japan?
From New York Times • Mar. 28, 2019
Sir Robert now stood before them, revealed not as a knight in glittering plate armor with pennon flying from his lance, but as what he had been all along: a grave, punctilious, honest lawyer.
From Slate • Mar. 25, 2019
Renly had chosen a woman to carry his banner as well, though Brienne hid face and form behind plate armor that gave no hint of her sex.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
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