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Definition of Mail-clad
1. Adjective. Wearing protective mail.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mail-clad
Literary usage of Mail-clad
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lives of the Queens of Scotland and English Princesses Connected with the by Agnes Strickland (1855)
"... version of this scene of lawless violence, grasped her arm in the struggle so
rudely, as to leave the prints of his mail-clad fingers visibly impressed. ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"The peer of our day ... is in less danger going about weaponless than was the
mail-clad knight with lance and »word. H. Spencer, Study of Sociol-, p. '. ..."
3. Mycenæ: A Narrative of Researches and Discoveries at Mycenæ and Tiryns by Heinrich Schliemann, William Ewart Gladstone (1880)
"... windows in the house—Objects of art and luxury found there—An onyx
seal-ring—Vase-paintings of mail-clad warriors—Hand-made pottery in the Acropolis. ..."
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