cataphract
(military, historical) Defensive armor covering the entire body of a soldier and often the soldier's horse as well, especially the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
Cushara, splendid in his plate-armor of bronze, on a huge piebald mare with a cataphract of leather scaled with copper, led the cavalcade.
(ichthyology, by extension, obsolete) An outer covering of some fish resembling armor or plate.
(nautical, historical) Of a galley such as a trireme: with the upper tier of rowers shielded rather than exposed.
(military, historical) A soldier (especially a horseman) covered with a cataphract.
Immediately / Was Samson as a public servant brought, / In thir state Livery clad; before him Pipes / and Timbrels, on each side went armed guards, / Both horse and foot before him and behind / Archers, and Slingers, Cataphracts and Spears.
A galley with the upper tier of rowers shielded.
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