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Plate armour

noun

Specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire. Synonyms: armor plate, armor plating, armour plate, plate armor.

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"Plate armour" Quotes from Famous Books

... sculpture, which is extremely well executed, represents Sir Robert kneeling in prayer within a circular pavilion, the curtains of which are held up by an angel on either side. The figure wears a partial suit of plate armour over the costume of the period, and the (bearded) face is turned obliquely towards the east yet away from the spectator, in the attitude of secret devotion. The tent is surmounted by a rich cornice, above which the monument terminates in ...

— Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield • George Worley

... further fortified by small pieces of leather, horn, or metal. So far from the invention of gunpowder having driven out armour, if we may credit the story of the earliest employment of that explosive, it was at a date when plate armour was hardly in use, certainly not in large pieces. What actually did cause the disuse of armour was the change in ideas as to the movement of troops and the large quantity of armour which was made in the sixteenth century, and consequently the inferior make. ...

— Authorised Guide to the Tower of London • W. J. Loftie

Words linked to "Plate armour" : helmet, skirt of tasses, frontstall, egis, greave, plate, tasset, pallette, nosepiece, beaver, breastplate, cannon, solleret, palette, visor, fauld, vizor, armor plate, roundel, knee piece, tasse, cubitiere, epauliere, brassard, backplate, cuisse, jambeau, tuille, testiere, shell, front-stall, aegis, scale, chanfron, gorget, sabaton, chamfron