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Definition of Chain mail
1. Noun. (Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings.
Generic synonyms: Body Armor, Body Armour, Cataphract, Coat Of Mail, Suit Of Armor, Suit Of Armour
Specialized synonyms: Brigandine, Habergeon, Byrnie, Hauberk, Gusset, Voider
Category relationships: Dark Ages, Middle Ages
Definition of Chain mail
1. Noun. A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings. ¹
2. Noun. Chain letters, taken collectively. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chain Mail
Literary usage of Chain mail
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chinese Clay Figures by Berthold Laufer (1914)
"chain mail consists of interwoven links of iron or steel so joined together ...
chain mail was a favorite means of defence in the chivalrous age of Europe, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"At its beginning we see many knights still clad in chain mail with no visible plate.
At its end the knight is often locked in plates from head to foot, ..."
3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... Spurs—The Saltcellar of State—Blood's Desperate Attempt to Steal the Regalia—The
Tower Armouries—Absurd Errors in their Arrangement—chain mail—German ..."
4. Ancient Armour and Weapons in Europe: From the Iron Period of the Northern by John Hewitt (1860)
"Though, in the second half of the fourteenth century, the chain-mail hauberk was
rapidly disappearing under repeated layers of plate-armour, there are yet ..."
5. A History of the Knights of Malta: Or The Order of the Hospital of St. John by Whitworth Porter (1858)
"DEFENSIVE ARMOUR : SCALE MAIL, chain mail, PLATE ARMOUR, THE HELMET, THE SHIELD.
OFFENSIVE ARMOUR : THE LANCE, THE SWORD, THE BATTLE-AXE THE DAGGER. ..."
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