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Suit of armor

noun

Armor that protects the wearer's whole body. Synonyms: body armor, body armour, cataphract, coat of mail, suit of armour.

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"Suit of armor" Quotes from Famous Books

... crypt, the third floor remained. The peasants said it could not fall, but that it would stay until the Day of Judgment, because it was in the room above that the wicked Count Albert sat watching the flames destroy the great castle and his imprisoned guests, and where he finally hung himself in a suit of armor that had belonged to his mediaeval ancestor, the first ...

— Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories • Ralph Adams Cram

... may be to launching out on a crusade of any sort, I always end by walking with a firm step to the door (feeling, somehow, that I have grown quite a bit taller and much handsomer) and saying quietly: "Meadows, my suit of armor, please; the one with a chain-mail shirt and ...

— Love Conquers All • Robert C. Benchley

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