? Obs. Also 6–7 lamm, 7– lame. [a. F. lame:—L. lām(m)ina, lâmna thin piece or plate.] A thin plate, esp. of metal; a thin piece of any substance, a lamina; spec. applied to the small overlapping steel plates used in old armor.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1590), 288. He strake Phalantus iust vpon the gorget, so as he battred the lamms thereof.
1611. Florio, Ali, wings. Also among armorers called lamms.
1633. J. Done, Hist. Septuagint, 47. Thinke not it was couered with Plates or Lames of Gold superficially but was made all of solide, massie, pure and fine Gold.
1725. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Nose, It has a great Extent in a small Space, because it wraps up all the bony Lames that stick to the cribrous Bone.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 223. The helmet assumes the form of the head, having moveable lames or plates at the back to guard the neck.
1869. Boutell, Arms & Arm., viii. 147. To the lower part of this demi-cuirass there was attached a system of articulated lames, or narrow plates, in their contour adapted to cover the figure.
1894. Viscount Dillon, in Antiquary, Jan., 26/2. The most curious part of the present suit is the tonlet, a system of lames or half-hoops of steel, which, supported by leather straps inside, descend nearly to the knees in form of a short petticoat.
