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Definition of Ring armour
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
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ring Armour
Literary usage of Ring armour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1808)
"... lie o'er that slung on the left arm, ring armour, of the other. ... (‘11(1 on
the left ju”u, ring armour, an of the seventeenth century, these surcoat; ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1883)
"On the contrary, when it has been necessary for knights to hide their ring armour,
they always covered it with some other garment ; had it not been the same ..."
3. Architectural Antiquities by John Carter (1890)
"The head is uncovered, the ring- armour being brought down on the shoulders ...
The ring-armour is composed of entwined circles (the ring-armour to all the ..."
4. Irish Ecclesiastical Architecture: With Some Notice of Similar Or Related by Arthur Charles Champneys (1910)
"... protection of chain or ring armour). Such quilted armour is also ... but they
have upper tunics (as well as ' camails') of chain or ring armour over ..."
5. The Viking Age: The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1889)
"Fragments of ring-armour of hammered iron. Real size. Fig. 394. ... Remains of
ring-armour of iron, silver, and belonging to ring-armour. ..."
6. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and sought the covert of the wood ¡ Nor so escap'd : her glitt'ring armour
shone, The starry helmet and the lofty cone, > Full to the glowing east; ..."
7. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... at first she stood : Then turn'd, and sought the covert of the wood j Nor so
escap'd: her glitt'ring armour shone. The starry helmet and the lofty cone, ..."
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