mailclad

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English

Etymology

From mail +‎ clad.

Adjective

mailclad (not comparable)

  1. Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
    • 1828–1831, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. , volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: ; Dublin: John Cumming:
      This renegade chief, or apostate, betrayed the Christian army into ground where the mailclad knights of Europe fainted for want of water, and were overwhelmed by the arrows of the lightmounted infidels

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