Coat Armour - Definition - Law Dictionary Home Dictionary Definition coat-armour

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Coat armour. Coats of arms were introduced by Richard I., from the Holy Lond, where they were first invented. Originally they were painted on the shields of the Christian knights, who went to the Holy Land during the crusades, for the purpose of identifying them, some such contrivance being necessary in order to distinguish knights when clad in armour from one another, Bl. Com. 306'