coat armour

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English cote armure; equivalent to coat +‎ armour.

Noun

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coat armour (countable and uncountable, plural coat armours)

  1. (archaic) The escutcheon of a person or family, with its charges, mantling, crest, supporters, motto, etc.
  2. (historical) A silk vest embroidered in colours, worn by a knight over the armour.

See also

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for coat armour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)