Brigandine
a flexible body armor of overlapping steel plates with an exterior covering of linen, velvet, leather, etc.
Historical Examples
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation, Volume XIV (of 16) Richard Hakluyt
Guy Fawkes William Harrison Ainsworth
South London Sir Walter Besant
noun
a coat of mail, invented in the Middle Ages to increase mobility, consisting of metal rings or sheets sewn on to cloth or leather
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