Open English Wordnet
(n)full plate armor, full plate armoura historical type of personal armor made from iron or steel plates entirely encasing the wearer.“Full plate armour was expensive to produce and remained therefore restricted to the upper strata of society; lavishly decorated suits of armour remained the fashion with 18th-century nobles and generals long after they had ceased to be militarily useful on the battlefield due to the advent of inexpensive muskets.”