• Platemail

    Full definition of platemail

    Noun

    platemail

    (uncountable)
    1. Alternative form of en.
      • 2005, Prince of Persia: Warrior Within, Few women can wear skin-tight platemail, but on miniboss Shahdee here, it works.
      • 2014, Tim Hall, Shadow of the Wolf, An arrow had speared his leg, puncturing the platemail near his knee.
      • 2015, Jay Erickson, Blood Wizard Chronicles: Pariah, Platemail was too heavy and restricting, while most of the scalemail and chainmail was too rusted to move, not to mention the brown streaks it left across his skin.
      • 2015, Michael DeAngelo, Tales of Tellest Chapter The Fall, He held the platemail before him and lifted his hand beneath it. A few moments later, a click reverberated from within. Almost immediately, two interlocking metal discs rotated from beneath the armor, locking into place within each circle.
      • 2015, w, The Liar’s Key, Next to me is a huge warrior in battered platemail, heavy-duty stuff fashioned in the old style from black iron.
      • 2016, Adrian Selby, Snakewood, They were Reds; shields and platemail and a two-hander, Kigan knowing some heavies would test us what used only the broadsword.
      • 2017, Alex Marshall Jesse Bullington, A War in Crimson Embers, The downed squid-dragon was just ahead now, the biggest one he’d ever seen just lying there in the middle of the battlefield, but between him and his quarry half a dozen Tothans had surrounded a ten-foot-tall, ox-faced wildborn laden with iron platemail, blue streamers flying from its horns.
      • 2021, Patricia A. Jackson, Forging a Nightmare, Outside, Michael shrugged against the stiff shoulders of his jousting gambeson, opting to leave his platemail in the trunk.
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