1) Armor 2) Armour 3) Body armor 4) Body armour 5) Coat of mail 6) Suit of armor 7) Suit of armour 8) Tang dynasty
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1) Corselet 2) Corslet 3) Cuirass
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A cataphract was a form of armored heavy cavalry used in ancient warfare by a number of peoples in Western Eurasia and the Eurasian Steppe. The word in English is derived from the κατάφρακτος Kataphraktos (plural: κατάφρακτοι Kataphraktoi), literally meaning `armored` or `completely enclosed`. Historically, the cataphract...
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suit of mail; soldier in full armour; armoured ship
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• (n.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations. • (n.) The armor or plate covering some fishes. • (n.) A horseman covered with a cataphract.
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(from the article `military technology`) ...7th centuries developed an effective provincial militia based on the institution of pronoia, the award of nonhereditary grants of land capable of ... ...from great Assyrian palaces show horsemen, clad in armour and armed with spear or lance, who were used in combination with other troops such ...
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Cat'a·phract (kat'a*frăkt)
noun [ Latin
cataphractes , Greek ..., from ... covered, from ... to cover;
kata` down, wholly +
fra`ssein to inclose.]
1. (Mil. Antiq.) Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mai...
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Cataphract was defensive armour used for the whole body and often for the horse, also. The name was especially applied to the linked mail or scale armour of some eastern nations. Later, the name was applied to an armoured knight.
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