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Synonyms for chain mail


Grammar : Noun



Définition of chain mail

  • noun flexible armor
Example sentences :
  • The archers are sometimes protected by a kind of chain mail.
  • Extract from : « History of Ancient Art » by Franz von Reber
  • Another example of the same sort is the revival of chain mail.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of War Inventions » by Thomas W. Corbin
  • The features are handsome, and the whole body is wrapped in chain mail.
  • Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
  • She was conscious, as he held her thus, of the chain mail under his jerkin.
  • Extract from : « Chivalry » by James Branch Cabell
  • There, too, were coats of chain mail and great iron gauntlets, and rows of dinted helmets formed a cornice round the gallery.
  • Extract from : « Viviette » by William J. Locke
  • The immense antiquity of chain mail, and that it originated in the East, are the two facts beyond dispute in its history.
  • Extract from : « Armour in England » by J. Starkie Gardner
  • There seems to have been hardly any chain mail which a clothyard arrow could not pierce.
  • Extract from : « Battles of English History » by H. B. (Hereford Brooke) George
  • Towering above them were mounted men, men dressed in hauberks and doublets of chain mail.
  • Extract from : « The Eye of Wilbur Mook » by H. B. Hickey
  • Instead of being hard and stiff, it is all linked together, so that it is more like a piece of chain mail than of iron railing.
  • Extract from : « Brick and Marble in the Middle Ages » by George Edmund Street
  • A man in a shirt of chain mail stood upright in the bows, and a levelled cross-bow threatened them.
  • Extract from : « The Serf » by Guy Thorne

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