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Plate armor   /pleɪt ˈɑrmər/   Listen
Plate armor

noun
1.
Specially hardened steel plate used to protect fortifications or vehicles from enemy fire.  Synonyms: armor plate, armor plating, armour plate, plate armour.






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"Plate armor" Quotes from Famous Books



... it was, Chester had allowed himself that odd freedom with Landry which Southerners feel safe in under the plate armor of their race distinctions. Receiving his map he asked, as he looked along a shelf or two: "Have you that book that tells of you—as a slave? your master letting you educate yourself; your once refusing your freedom, and your being private ...
— The Flower of the Chapdelaines • George W. Cable

... spirits of the waves, from the sea-silk beds in their coral caves; With snail-plate armor snatched in haste, They speed their way through the liquid waste. Some are rapidly borne along On the mailed shrimp or the prickly prong, Some on the blood-red leeches glide, Some on the stony star-fish ride, Some on the back of the lancing squab, Some on the sideling soldier-crab, And some ...
— Selections From American Poetry • Various

... reverberate every footfall. Everything thus far had a solemn monastic air; but, on arriving at an angle of the corridor, the eye, glancing along a shadowy gallery, caught a sight of two dark figures in plate armor, with closed visors, bucklers braced, and swords drawn, standing motionless against the wall. They seemed two phantoms of the ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving



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