Definition of "chain mail" [chain mail]

• Flexible armor made of joined metal links or scales. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Nearer, scatterbirches in the lowland meadows shimmered in their new leaf, like chain mail on skeletons."
• "Over their white jibbas they wore oddments of medieval armor, loose-ringed chain mail shirts, helmets from Abyssinia, and padded armor from Darfur."
• "Men clad in chain mail from head to foot, the cataphracts bestrode big horses also clad in chain mail."