coat-armour

Now Sigurd rides away; many-folded is his shield, an blazing with red gold, and the image of a dragon is drawn thereon; and this same was dark brown above, and bright red below; and with even such-like image was adorned helm, and saddle, and coat-armour; and he was clad in the golden byrny, and all his weapons were gold wrought.

The Story of the Volsungs 2008

In the spandril above the outer archway is carved, 'amid elegant scroll-work and foliage, an arm, vested in an ermine maunch, the hand grasping a golden fleur-de-lys' -- the old coat-armour of the Mohuns; and on the other spandril 'three lions passant in pale,' the bearing of the Carews.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

For example, what were the changes, if any, upon the label or file of difference used in the coat-armour of Henry, Prince of Wales, eldest son of James I., and of his brother Charles, when Prince of Wales, and so on, to the present time?

Notes and Queries, Number 46, September 14, 1850 Various

The treatise on coat-armour, or 'cootarmuris,' as it is quaintly spelt, which comprises the third part of the 'Book of

The Book-Hunter at Home P. B. M. Allan

The Hungarian, whose Christian name is conjectured to have been Maurice, was then naturalized a Scot; and all the parts of his coat-armour were contrived to indicate his adventures, his name, office, and nation.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. Mrs. Thomson

"A quilted coat-armour, with _half-sleeves tabard fashion_," reads oddly as part of this prince's costume; but we know that sometimes "Coming events cast their shadows before."

Notes and Queries, Number 18, March 2, 1850 Various

Compare to that yellow-nailed, swart bear-skin, the coat-armour made with cloth of Tars, the mantelet thick-sown with rubies; for the locks like the raven's plumage, the curls like Apollo's tresses.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

"I'll have two blue stars and a jack in my coat-armour," thought I, as I bowed to the Duke, who made himself singularly graceful.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

Their zeal was quick with the devotion to a cause that went out with coat-armour.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

Then he passed on, hardly noticing whither he went, but turning mechanically, when he had covered five miles, wrestling with arguments, grappling with circumstances, and finally setting himself by the ears for a lovesick fool and a varlet in coat-armour.

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922