chain armour

Questions about chain armour

What does chain armour mean?

chain armour means "(Middle Ages) flexible armor made of interlinked metal rings".

What is another word for chain armour?

Close synonyms include chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, ring armor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is chain armour a common word?

chain armour is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.