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Noun: full plate armour
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: full plate armour)
  1. A historical type of personal armour made from iron or steel plates entirely encasing the wearer.
    "Full plate armour was expensive to produce and remained therefore restricted to the upper strata of society; lavishly decorated suits of armour remained the fashion with 18th-century nobles and generals long after they had ceased to be militarily useful on the battlefield due to the advent of inexpensive muskets.";
    - full plate armor [N. Amer]

Type of: plate armor [US], plate armour [Brit, Cdn]

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