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A knight's rebuttal to the fact that swords exist.
means Protective gear made of shaped metal plates worn over the body, covering the torso and limbs to deflect blows in combat.
from 'Plate' traces back through Old French 'plate' to Medieval Latin 'plata' (meaning a flat sheet of metal), related to Greek 'platys' meaning broad or flat. 'Armor' comes from Old French 'armure', from Latin 'armatura' — the gear of 'arma', meaning weapons or tools of war. The phrase itself simply describes what it is: armor made of plates, as opposed to the mail (interlocking rings) or leather that came before it — full plate harnesses emerged in medieval Europe as metalworking grew sophisticated enough to hammer curved, body-fitted steel.
- weight myth
- Full suits weighed ~45lbs, less than modern infantry gear
- mobility
- Knights could run, vault horses, and grapple unaided
- killer
- Gunpowder didn't kill it, economics and pike squares did
- custom fit
- Made to measure, like a very stabby tuxedo