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Meanings of armour-plated in English

Covered with heavy steel.

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Usage of armour-plated in English
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Mick Jagger famously bellowed from the safety of his armour-plated Jacuzzi.
The Irish Times
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That Bentley was armour-plated.' He ran his hand through his hair.
Fatherland
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Only the powder-magazines were armour-plated, but the plates used were of the strongest kind.
Freeland: A Social Anticipation
4
The attendant again led the way towards another armour-plated aisle.
Four Max Carrados Detective Stories
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Black Pond is funny, dreamily lyrical, armour-plated with eccentric self-confidence and also intensely English.
The Guardian
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He is armour-plated against all assaults of reasoning.
The house of wittgenstein: a family at war
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It was armour-plated, had jaws like scimitars, and underneath its body was a forest of legs.
A Voyage to Arcturus
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Not everyone has the armour-plated hide to bulldoze right through the horrified disdain of the mainstream media.
The Irish Times
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To get his data and images, he has piloted an armour-plated plane into the hearts of storms.
BBC
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The paint had barely dried when the Japanese army swept up the Sarawak River in armour-plated barges.
Full Circle
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I was saved by my armour-plated car.
Reuters
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The ocean depths are also populated with glow-in-the-dark fish, creeping sea lilies and, strangely, snails with armour-plated feet.
News.com.au
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Big heavy marching boots, armour-plated on the sole and so large that they looked and felt like barges.
Into the Jaws of Death
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As an anti-mafia prosecutor, she is guarded round the clock by bodyguards and travels in an armour-plated car.
Radio NZ
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It has also recovered an armour-plated car which it believes was being prepared for use in an IRA sniping attack.
The Irish Times
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They may be smaller than bulls you see in the ring with toreadors, but they look tougher, more compact and almost armour-plated.
The Irish Times
Armour-plated through the time