Examples
“The distinct lack of boobs in the armour is a good thing, I cant stress this enough”
“Christian armour is called the armour of God, Eph. vi.”
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
“Cosimo was an able bureaucrat, not a soldier, so the armour is fancy dress, but this image says "invincible Machiavellian prince".”
“As the sense of ‘breathing-placeÂ’ appears to be inapplicable to the earliest use of the word (see sense 1) in French and English, the name may originally have been given to the piece of armour from a real or fancied resemblance to some other article so designated.”
“At close range firearms would pierce even plate armour, which led to the retirement of plate armour from the field (obsolete).”
“I like the fact that the texture on the armour is so beautifully detailed and realistic that you could charge schoolchildren 50p per time to make brass rubbings from it.”
Book Cover Smackdown! 'Zoo City' vs. 'Plague Year' (Czech) vs. Firedrake
“Our amazing yellow (but not hi vis) armour is also manufactured with a heat management system.”
“But there is no second hand market in armour ... well suits, over here.”
“Caelen, all good points, but cylon armour is very thick/dense, as for the psychological side, these things rip the guy next to you into something barely resembling a sack of red goo, just for fear tactics, even hardnut trained soldiers will flinch at that.”
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Stormtroopers vs Cylons: Who wins?
“Is it me or does anyone else think Hi-Vis body armour is a bit pathetic?”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘armour’.
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UK Usage - Find US Equivalent
All these terms have a (different) American English equivalent. Wonder if you can identify them?
abridgement (abri..., accoutrement, accoutre, acknowledgement (..., opposite, advert, adaptor, adapter, sticking plaster, advertise, adviser (advisor ..., adze, aesthete and 1196 more...
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Words sung by: Belle and Sebastian
beguiling, herbaceous, peninsula, suffragette, damascan, hastening, berserk, overtime, leccy, bestow, swathe, arab strap and 193 more...
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LIT - Iliad - key words and protagonists
abduct, abducting, abductor, Achaea, Achaean, Achilles, advise, Aegean, Aegean Sea, Aegina, aegis, Aeneas and 713 more...
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Greek Fire
being items related to mediaeval warfare, arms and armaments.
caltrop, ballista, trebuchet, mangonel, petard, onager, petrary, hurlbat, francisca, crossbow, longbow, flail and 97 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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geekwad's Words
mysterium, elif, reckon, shadowy, ostensibly, unique, foodie, surreptitiously, asynchronous, insane, berserk, space pirate and 235 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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He was a verray, parfit gentil knyght
my favourite era
feudal, peasant, vassal, serf, medieval, fief, chivalry, yeoman, joust, primogeniture, wimple, abbey and 56 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for armour.
Prolagus Skipping tickets, making rhymes
Is that all that you believe in?
Wearing rags to make you pretty by design.
Rusting armour for effect
It's not fun to watch the rust grow
For it will all be over when you're dead.
Is it wicked not to care?, by Belle And Sebastian) Aug 5, 2008