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armorless

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ar⋅mor

  [ahr-mer]
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–noun
1. any covering worn as a defense against weapons.
2. a suit of armor.
3. a metallic sheathing or protective covering, esp. metal plates, used on warships, armored vehicles, airplanes, and fortifications.
4. mechanized units of military forces, as armored divisions.
5. Also called armament. any protective covering, as on certain animals, insects, or plants.
6. any quality, characteristic, situation, or thing that serves as protection: A chilling courtesy was his only armor.
7. the outer, protective wrapping of metal, usually fine, braided steel wires, on a cable.
–verb (used with object)
8. to cover or equip with armor or armor plate.
Also, especially British, armour.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME armo(u)r, armure < AF armour(e), armure OF armëure < L armātūra armature; assimilated, in ME and AF, to nouns ending in -our -or 2

Related forms:
ar⋅mor⋅less, adjective
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Word Origin & History

armor 
1297, "mail, defensive covering worn in combat," from O.Fr. armeure, from L. armatura "arms, equipment," from arma "arms, gear." The word might have died with jousting if not for late 19c. transference to metal-shielded machinery beginning with U.S. Civil War ironclads (first attested in this sense in an 1855 report from the U.S. Congressional Committee on Naval Affairs).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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