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adjective

armour-clad, armour-plated, armor-plated, armor-clad adj.

Protected with a covering of armor.

Synonyms: steel-plated.

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Etymology of 'Armour-clad'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Armour-clad" Quotes from Famous Books

... correct, that he himself killed Richard, or that Richard was killed in the act of striking him a desperate blow. But Henry at Bosworth in 1485 still belonged to the days of chivalry—to an era in which monarchs were also armour-clad knights, who headed charges in person and gave and took with spear, sword, and battle-axe. Long before Peter the Great, more than two centuries after Bosworth, foamed at the mouth with rage and hacked with his sword at his panicstricken ...

— Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places • Archibald Forbes

... new and hitherto unsuspected vein of tact, encouraged Epstein to enlarge on this congenial theme. He now fully realized that Devon would go his own gait until he wearied of it, and that no argument or persuasion could enter his armor-clad mind. The position of Bangs was a difficult one, for while he was accepting and assimilating this unpleasant fact, Epstein and Haxon—impatient men by temperament and without much training in self-control—were getting wholly out of patience ...

— The Girl in the Mirror • Elizabeth Garver Jordan

Words linked to "Armour-clad" : steel-plated, armour-plated, armoured, armored, armor-plated