"platemail" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} platemail (uncountable)
  1. Alternative form of plate mail. Tags: alt-of, alternative, uncountable Alternative form of: plate mail
    Sense id: en-platemail-en-noun-ocmBCKGU Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "2015, Jay Erickson, Blood Wizard Chronicles: Pariah, La Porte, Ind.: Halsbren Publishing, LLC, page 316",
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          "ref": "2015, Michael DeAngelo, “The Fall”, in Tales of Tellest, volume 1, [CreateSpace], page 363",
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          "ref": "2016, Adrian Selby, Snakewood, London: Orbit, page 413",
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          "ref": "2017, Alex Marshall [pseudonym; Jesse Bullington], A War in Crimson Embers, London: Orbit, page 451",
          "text": "The downed squid-dragon was just ahead now, the biggest one he’d ever seen just lying there in the middle of the battlefield, but between him and his quarry half a dozen Tothans had surrounded a ten-foot-tall, ox-faced wildborn laden with iron platemail, blue streamers flying from its horns.",
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