ring armour

Questions about ring armour

What does ring armour mean?

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

What is another word for ring armour?

Close synonyms include chain mail, ring mail, mail, chain armor, chain armour. 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 ring armour a common word?

ring 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.