Examples from literature

• Give him another steel cap, and full body armour. 
• The body armour I don't so much mind, now that I am fairly in the saddle. 
• The question of body armour for the troops, it is stated, is still under consideration by the authorities. 
• They have no horsemen or body armour, but use darts and spears, barbed with many poisonous fangs, and several kinds of arrows, as with us.