mail-coif

Giles, who was now clad in a hauberk and mail-coif and looked a proper man-at-arms.

The Well at the World's End: a tale William Morris 1865

He put off his helm and drew back his mail-coif, then took a trumpet from the hand of a herald and blew strongly.

The Hollow Land William Morris 1865

I had soon put off my great helm, and was fighting in my mail-coif only: and here I swear that three knights together charged me, aiming at my bare face, yet never touched me.

The Hollow Land William Morris 1865

"Mary rings," and my horse whinnied again, and we both of us went at it, and fairly stopped that rout, so that there was a knot of quite close and desperate fighting, wherein we had the best of that fight and slew most of them, albeit my horse was slain and my mail-coif cut through.

The Hollow Land William Morris 1865

Raoul, and smote him a great stroke on the helm in such wise that he beat down the head-piece and drave in the sword on to the mail-coif, and sheared all thereto; but the coif was of steel so strong that he wounded him not, howbeit he made him to stagger, so that he caught hold of the arson of the saddle; and if he had not, he had fallen to earth.

Old French Romances William Morris 1865