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MAIL-CLAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mail-clad mean?
• MAIL-CLAD (adjective)
The adjective MAIL-CLAD has 1 sense:
1. wearing protective mail
Familiarity information: MAIL-CLAD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Wearing protective mail
Synonyms:
mail-clad; mailed
Similar:
armored; armoured (protected by armor (used of persons or things military))
Context examples
A dignity was given to the contest by a rigid code of ceremony, just as the clash of mail-clad knights was prefaced and adorned by the calling of the heralds and the showing of blazoned shields.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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