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chain mail
noun[ U ]
uk /ˈtʃeɪn ˌmeɪl/ us /ˈtʃeɪn ˌmeɪl/(alsomail)
small metal rings that have been joined together to look like cloth. It was used in the past to protect the body of a soldier from injury when fighting.（旧时用于保护士兵的）锁子甲
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At Ashwell, Rutland, is an effigy in wood of a cross-legged knight, also in chain mail, if I remember rightly.
At the end of the room is a Persian horse armour of brass scales connected by chain mail.
I said that he wore a steel cap, with a gilt iron spike of six inches, and a hood of chain mail.
In the cases on the right hand are specimens of chain mail in form of hoods, coats, sleeves, etc, mostly, if not all, of Eastern origin.
It is the fear which never leaves him—the fear that makes him wear a doublet so thickly quilted that it would suffice to turn the sharpest blade, even as a suit of chain mail.
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