Meanings of scale armour in English

Some wore weird fish- scale armour, but most went bare-chested in the barbarian fashion.

Pottery, bronze-work, some exquisitely wrought scale armour, very light but overlapping six times, were unearthed within this enclosure.

If nature had meant it, we should have been born in a suit of scale armour, like a crocodile.

The next case is devoted to hard-coated fish, as the Callichthes, which are cased with a thick scale armour; and the hard-coated Loricaria.

He wore a shirt of scale armour, rather rusty, and somewhat the worse of having figured in many a tough battle by land and sea.

Skinner's scaled armour scraped and slithered as he held out his arms.

Lard was holding up his own shirt of scaled armour and scowling.

The other wore a similar set of shell-like scaled armour, but of iron.

It reared from the spume, scaled armour glittering hues of mother-of-pearl and opal.

Their shell-like scaled armour hung as ragged skirting all the way down to the waters.

Pride needs no claws, no scaled armour about itself.

One approached, a woman, her long flowing coat of scaled armour enamelled the same blood red.

Then it raised an arm, the scaled armour flashing iridescent, seeming to salute her, and backed away.

'Felicitations from Commander Urko!' the leader announced, a fat ginger-haired Falaran in bronze scale armour.

Among their numbers she saw the robes over mail of Seven Cities, the embossed boiled leather of Genabackis and the bronze scaled armour of Falar.