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armoured adj.

Provided with protective covering; used of animals. Opposite of unarmored. Note: (Narrower terms: bone-covered; scaly, scaley, scaled.

Synonyms: armored.

Same as armor-clad; used of persons or things military. Opposite of unarmored. Note: One that is aromour-clad is bulletproof. Narrower terms: lightly armored, lightly armoured; mail-clad, mailed; panzer; scaled

Synonyms: armored.

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Etymology of 'Armoured'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Armoured" Quotes from Famous Books

... up with 120 fresh cases and steamed off for Capetown. The armoured train was moving fitfully about as we left, but the poor thing's energies were rather cramped as the line disappeared about 300 ...

— With Methuen's Column on an Ambulance Train • Ernest N. Bennett

... said Frank, as they paused and looked up, 'that old stone cross was completed, with heralds and armoured knights around it to honour her whose memory was honoured by the king. Now the corduroyed porters stand where the knights stood, and the engines whistle where the heralds trumpeted, but the old cross is the same as ever in the same old place. It is a little thing of ...

— A Duet • A. Conan Doyle

... noticed all this and smiled inwardly. He wandered about the bomb-proof case-mates hewn out of the solid rock, caring nothing for the number and calibre of the guns, their armoured protection, or the chart-like diagrams upon the walls, ranges ...

— The Doctor of Pimlico - Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime • William Le Queux

... was an officer named Weldon killed—oh, yes! he remembered there were two Weldons—one killed, one wounded, but he did not know which was in the Leicesters. 'Tell us about Mafeking,' said someone else. Then we heard about Mafeking—the armoured trains, the bombardment, the sorties, the dynamite wagons—all, in fact, that is yet known of what may become an historic defence. 'And how many Boers are killed?' cried a private soldier from the back. The man hesitated, ...

— London to Ladysmith via Pretoria • Winston Spencer Churchill

... promise having been given that they would not be molested. Of course, the whole town was on the qui vive and everybody had been warned to refrain from incurring their displeasure. Just as the German motor passed in front of our Consulate, a Belgian armoured car came charging in from Antwerp, knowing nothing of the presence of the Germans, and upon seeing the enemy uniform, opened fire, wounding the officer and one of ...

— A Journal From Our Legation in Belgium • Hugh Gibson

Words linked to "Armoured" : scaly, mailed, silver-scaled, armored, mail-cheeked, armoured car, armor-plated, bony-plated, war machine, armoured vehicle, steel-plated, scaled, armour-clad, unarmored, bulletproof, lightly armoured, armoured combat vehicle, armor-clad, lightly armored