chain armor

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There's a look in that cool, greenish eye that sheds Cupid's darts like chain armor.

From Kildares of Storm by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

And the Young Electrician who lolled across the car aisle was neither one length nor another, but most inordinately flexible, like a suit of chain armor.

From The Indiscreet Letter by Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell

A suit of chain armor worn by one of the Sultans of olden times is ornamented with gold and diamonds.

From A Trip to the Orient The Story of a Mediterranean Cruise by Jacob, Robert Urie

He would wear his khaki like chain armor.

From The Gay Cockade by Bailey, Temple

Plate, vi, 43; vii, 2, solid armor, as distinguished from the coat of mail, or light chain armor.

From Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Spenser, Edmund