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noun

Armor n. (Spelt also armour)

Defensive arms for the body; any clothing or covering worn to protect one's person in battle. Note: In English statues, armor is used for the whole apparatus of war, including offensive as well as defensive arms. The statues of armor directed what arms every man should provide.

Steel or iron covering, whether of ships or forts, protecting them from the fire of artillery.

Coat armor, the escutcheon of a person or family, with its several charges and other furniture, as mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc.

Submarine armor, a water-tight dress or covering for a diver. See under Submarine.

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Etymology of 'Armour'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Armour" Quotes from Famous Books

... Perhaps, after long experience and much suffering, the individuality may become secure, and the armour no longer necessary, but this is a bitter process. Most people become extinct, and ...

— The Daughters of Danaus • Mona Caird

... David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail. And David girded his sword upon his armour, and he essayed to go. But David said unto Saul, "I cannot go with these; for I have ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

... following descriptive title: "An editor in a small way, after pretending a great deal about his correspondents, is here supposed to have received a letter." A second skit shows us a critic examining a picture representing "the death of A Beckett, Archbishop of Cant." A figure in armour, with its vizor down (obviously intended for the artist) is depicted in the act of cutting at the "archbishop" with a sword, the blade of which is inscribed "debts due." His first blow has severed the mitre labelled "assumption," and the pastoral staff, inscribed ...

— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt

... to do," he said; "that armour to prepare—the plan of campaign to consider, you know. Good-night, then, ...

— The Mystery Of The Boule Cabinet - A Detective Story • Burton Egbert Stevenson

... Him with the golden Armour, whose whole Army you blew away with a single Puff, like Leaves before the Wind, and Feathers ...

— Prefaces to Terence's Comedies and Plautus's Comedies (1694) • Lawrence Echard

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