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plate armour

plate armour noun: metallic armour made of large pieces or plates.

Noun

plate armour (countable and uncountable, plural plate armours)

  1. Metallic armour made of large pieces or plates.
    • Plate armour was, however, completely introduced both here and in France about the middle of the fourteenth century.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 74

plate armour meaning in Hindi

plate armour in Hindi

plate armour; cuirass
बकतर baktar

Forms of plate armour

pluralplate armours
alternative formplate armor

Questions about plate armour

What does plate armour mean?
Plate armour means metallic armour made of large pieces or plates.
What is plate armour in Hindi?
Plate armour in Hindi is बकतर (baktar). See Plate armour meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is plate armour?
Plate armour is a noun.
What is the plural of plate armour?
The plural of plate armour is plate armours.

Words near plate armour in the dictionary

  1. platbands
  2. plate
  3. plate appearance
  4. plate appearances
  5. plate armor
  6. plate armour
  7. plate armours
  8. plate away
  9. plate block
  10. plate blocks
  11. plate bone

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Adapted from Wiktionary: plate armour (page history and authors); बकतर (Hindi) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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