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Chain mail   /tʃeɪn meɪl/   Listen
Chain mail

noun
1.
(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings.  Synonyms: chain armor, chain armour, mail, ring armor, ring armour, ring mail.






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"Chain mail" Quotes from Famous Books



... own time with my armor, and this delayed me a little. It is troublesome to get into, and there is so much detail. First you wrap a layer or two of blanket around your body, for a sort of cushion and to keep off the cold iron; then you put on your sleeves and shirt of chain mail—these are made of small steel links woven together, and they form a fabric so flexible that if you toss your shirt onto the floor, it slumps into a pile like a peck of wet fish-net; it is very heavy and is nearly the uncomfortablest material in the ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... all in armour, and in all sorts of armour. Some of them had overlapping tongues of bright metal fastened on their clothes, others were in chain mail from head to foot, others ...
— The Angels of Mons • Arthur Machen

... came, the grave, armoured knights riding with their visors up that all might see how well the tanner, Giovanni, and Enrico Lupi of the wine-shop, looked in chain mail; gay, velvet-clad pages carrying the silk-embroidered standards of their contrade with all the fine airs of the lads who stand about the bier of Saint Catherine in Ghirlandaio's fresco in the Duomo; lithe, slender alfieri tossing their flags, twisting them about in the carefully-concerted ...
— Olive in Italy • Moray Dalton

... on the second landing. Douglas Stone followed the old nurse into it, with the merchant at his heels. Here, at least, there was furniture and to spare. The floor was littered and the corners piled with Turkish cabinets, inlaid tables, coats of chain mail, strange pipes, and grotesque weapons. A single small lamp stood upon a bracket on the wall. Douglas Stone took it down, and picking his way among the lumber, walked over to a couch in the corner, on which lay a woman dressed in the Turkish fashion, with yashmak ...
— Round the Red Lamp - Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life • Arthur Conan Doyle



Words linked to "Chain mail" :   byrnie, habergeon, brigandine, suit of armour, body armour, mail, Middle Ages, body armor, voider, cataphract, ring armor, suit of armor, hauberk, Dark Ages, gusset, coat of mail



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