horse armor
Steed's battle gear
Horse armor is protective gear fitted to horses in battle, covering the head, neck, chest, and flanks with metal plates or chainmail.
Medieval knights armored their warhorses for jousting and combat.
The term gained internet notoriety through a much-mocked downloadable content offering for a video game—now shorthand for overpriced, trivial add-ons: They're charging ten dollars for what's basically horse armor.
- caparisonHorse's ceremonial dress
- plateFlat dish for food
- bardingWrapping meat in fat
- metalHard conductive solid
- chainLinked segments forming length
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- arms and armorswords, shields, helmets, daggers, axes
- ancient weaponssword, swords, shield, shields, bow
- armorchainmail, chain mail, breastplate, cuirass, hauberk
- cavalry armorbarding, crupper, spurs
- Heavy cavalryknights, lancers, cuirassiers, men-at-arms, warhorses
- horse historywar horses, chariot racing, cavalry charges, jousting, palfrey