wearing plate

The Mursi women are famous for wearing plates in their lower lips.

Lucky for him he was wearing plate.

"To kill a man," he said, "you have to remember: he is almost certainly wearing plate armor on his chest.

The Sara women of Chad (ceased wearing plates in the 1920s)

Fix wearing plates.

He was wearing plated mail."

However, even with the gambeson and the mail shirt, a wearer was not as well protected as when wearing plate armor.

The Makonde of Tanzania and Mozambique (ceased wearing plates several decades ago)

In short, it was a horse stout enough to carry Mourton Loudec, even had he been wearing plate armor.

"Here, let me help you," Caramon offered, knowing that Tanis-unaccustomed to wearing plate armor-found the intricate buckles and straps difficult to manage.

One contemporary French account described the barrage at Agincourt against French knights wearing plate armour as a "terrifying hail of arrow shot".

The king was a strange sight, wearing plates of gromril armour and a dragon-scale cloak, with his hair and beard dyed and styled in the manner of a slayer.

There was a detachable rear piece for the steel bases to allow the man-at-arms to sit on his horse, although even without such rear piece it must have been rather difficult to mount and dismount when wearing plate armour bases.

By the end of the 17th century, soldiers in the infantry and most cavalry units alike preferred the higher mobility offered by a completely unarmoured state to the slight protection - but greatly lessened mobility - offered by wearing plate armour.

Whenever a soldier thought he could no longer go on, he had only to look to the front of the line, to see the slender, fragile-looking girl, wearing plate and chain mail, lead- ing the march, never flagging, never pausing to rest, never look- ing behind to see if anyone was following.