n. A fabric woven with a raised pattern similar to chain mail.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Armor.
n. A variety of twilled fabric ribbed on the surface.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. The regular Middle English form of armor.
n. A woolen or silk fabric woven with a surface-ridge forming a small pattern, as a diamond, etc.
Word Usage
"Pinnas, they soncke the same and al the Mariners, and kept Landolpho, suffering him not to haue about him any kind of armure, not so much as an haberion."