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platemail en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of plate mail.
    alt of plate mail
    • They were Reds; shields and platemail and a two-hander, Kigan knowing some heavies would test us what used only the broadsword. 2016, Adrian Selby, Snakewood, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 413:
    • 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, Jay Erickson, Blood Wizard Chronicles: Pariah, La Porte, Ind.: Halsbren Publishing, LLC, →ISBN, page 316:
    • Few women can wear skin-tight platemail, but on miniboss Shahdee here, it works. 2005 January, “Prince of Persia: Warrior Within”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 187, Ziff Davis Media Inc., →ISSN, page 126:
    • Next to me is a huge warrior in battered platemail, heavy-duty stuff fashioned in the old style from black iron. 2015, Mark Lawrence, The Liar’s Key (The Red Queen’s War; 2), London: Harper Voyager, →ISBN, page 161:
    • An arrow had speared his leg, puncturing the platemail near his knee. 2014, Tim Hall, Shadow of the Wolf, Oxford, Oxon: David Fickling Books, →ISBN, page 382:
    • 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, Michael DeAngelo, “The Fall”, in Tales of Tellest, volume 1, [CreateSpace], →ISBN, page 363:
    • Outside, Michael shrugged against the stiff shoulders of his jousting gambeson, opting to leave his platemail in the trunk. 2021, Patricia A. Jackson, Forging a Nightmare, London: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 66:
    • 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. 2017, Alex Marshall [pseudonym; Jesse Bullington], A War in Crimson Embers, London: Orbit, →ISBN, page 451: