- special metal clothing that soldiers wore in the past to protect their bodies while fighting; special clothing that soldiers or police officers wear to protect their bodies
- a suit of armour
- police officers in full body armour
- (figurative) Monkeys do not have any kind of protective armour and use their brains to solve problems.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- full
- heavy
- thick
- …
- have on
- wear
- don
- …
- in armour
- a suit of armour
- metal covers that protect ships and military vehicles such as tanks
- (specialist) military vehicles used in war
- an attack by infantry and armour
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French armure, from Latin armatura, from armare ‘to arm’, from arma ‘armour, arms’.
Idioms
a chink in somebody’s armour
- a weak point in somebody’s argument, character, etc., that can be used in an attackTopics Opinion and argumentc2
a knight in shining armour
- (usually humorous) a man who saves somebody, especially a woman, from a dangerous situation
- She's still waiting for a knight in shining armour to come and rescue her.
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