chain mail

See also: chainmail

English
Mail

Etymology 1

From mail.

Noun

chain mail (uncountable)

  1. A flexible defensive armor, made of a mesh of interlinked metal rings.
    • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 11:
      Chain mail is formed by a number of iron rings, each ring having four others inserted into it, the whole exhibiting a kind of net work, with circular meshes, every ring separately rivetted; this kind of mail answers to that worn on the ancient breast plates, whence they were denominated loricæ hammatæ, from the rings being hooked together.
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Etymology 2

From mail.

Noun

chain mail (countable and uncountable, plural chain mails)

  1. (sometimes collectively) Chain letters.

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