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privy coat
noun
- a mail shirt worn under ordinary clothing as a defense against swords or daggers.
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of privy coat1
First recorded in 1525–35
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D'Ambois's sword fails to pierce the privy coat worn by the murderer.
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Mistake me not; I understand not by valour one that never fights but when he is backed with drink or anger, or hissed on with beholders, nor one that is desperate, nor one that takes away a serving-man's weapons when perchance it cost him his quarter's wages, nor yet one that wears a privy coat of defence and therein is confident, for then such as made bucklers would be counted the Catilines of the commonwealth.
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