mailclad en · ADJ
Etymology
From mail + clad.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
This renegade chief, or apostate, betrayed the Christian army into ground where the mailclad knights of Europe fainted for want of water, and were overwhelmed by the arrows of the lightmounted infidels
1828–1831, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. […] , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] ; Dublin: John Cumming: