scale-armourn. armour consisting of small overlapping plates of metal, leather, or horn.
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1842 W. C. TaylorStudent's Man. Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) xvii. §6. 526 Both horses and men [of the Sarmatians] were covered with a curious kind of scale armour formed of the sliced hoofs of animals.