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
I had an army of metal soldiers, with itsy-bitsy helmets and plate armor.
From Slate • May 21, 2021
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
Ser Vardis Egen was steel from head to heel, encased in heavy plate armor over mail and padded surcoat.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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