Meaning

1 senses
  1. (uncountable, usually)A type of personal armour constructed as series of metallic rings sewn to a fabric or leather foundation, assumed by the Victorians to have been used in the Middle Ages, but now generally thought not to have existed historically.

Origin

From ring + mail.

From ring + mail.

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Forms

plural: ringmails
Singularringmail

uncountable

Synonyms

2 synonyms
ring armourring armor

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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