mailclad
English
Adjective
mailclad (not comparable)
- Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armour.
- 18, Walter Scott, Tales of a Grandfather; being Stories Taken from Scottish History. […] In Three Vols., volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), Edinburgh: Printed; Dublin: John Cumming:
- This renegade chief, or apostate, betrayed the Christian army into ground where the mailclad knights of Europe fainted for want of water, and were overwhelmed by the arrows of the lightmounted infidels
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “mailclad”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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