plate armor

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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

Or as heavy, defensive tessellations of metal, like the plate armor of soldiers in medieval Europe or Japan?

From New York Times

“I have the vest. I have the plate armor. I have soft armor. I have helmets,” he continues.

From Washington Post

An hour after I arrived, a man in full samurai plate armor, complete with grimacing face mask, came wandering through town.

From The Verge

Among them: the stiletto heel, named for a slender Italian dagger from the Renaissance and used to "finish off a fallen knight by a thrust through chain mail or between plate armor."

From Los Angeles Times