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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