Meanings
- alternativeuncountableAlternative form of plate mail.
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 3825 more examples
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 126Platemail 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 316He 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 363Next 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 161They 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
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