noun
(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings
• Syn: ↑ring mail, ↑mail, ↑chain armor, ↑chain armour, ↑ring armor, ↑ring armour
• Topics: ↑Middle Ages, ↑Dark Ages
• Hypernyms: ↑body armor, ↑body armour, ↑suit of armor, ↑suit of armour, ↑coat of mail, ↑cataphract
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noun : flexible armor of interlinked metal rings — called also chain armor
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Armor.
mail2 (def. 1).
[1815-25]
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chain mail noun
Armour of small connected metal links, much used in Europe in the 12c and 13c
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Main Entry: ↑chain
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chain mail UK US noun [uncountable]
clothing made from metal rings that soldiers in the past wore for protection
Thesaurus: clothes and accessories worn in the pasthyponym
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chain mail,
a kind of flexible armor used in the Middle Ages, made of metal rings linked together; mail: »
Without pay, too, it would have been difficult, if not impossible, for many knights to bear the rapidly rising cost of armor in this period [the Renaissance] when heavy plate was beginning to replace the simpler chain mail of the crusading era (Wallace Ferguson).
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n. historical armor made of small metal rings linked together
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noun [noncount]
: a kind of protective clothing (called armor) that is made up of many tiny metal rings that are linked together and that was worn by knights and soldiers in the Middle Ages
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↑armour (= covering to protect the body when fighting) made of small metal rings linked together
See also: ↑mail
Useful english dictionary. 2012.