plate-coat

Updated: June 9, 2025

Had I not been armed in proof, the villain had marked me down seven times with as little remorse as if I had been a buck in season. He told every rivet on my armour with a cloth-yard shaft, that rapped against my ribs with as little compunction as if my bones had been of iron But that I wore a shirt of Spanish mail under my plate-coat, I had been fairly sped."

Sir Walter Scott - Ivanhoe