A surcoat or surcote is an outer garment that was commonly worn in the Middle Ages by soldiers. It was worn over armor to show insignia and help identify...

coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an...

must recite the Lord's Prayer at the same hours. The knights wore a white surcoat with a red cross, and a white mantle also with a red cross; the sergeants...

cuirass, began to be worn without any surcoat; but in the concluding quarter of the century the short surcoat, with full short sleeves, known as a "tabard"...

heraldic colour. Men wore a tunic, cote, or cotte with a surcoat over a linen shirt. One of these surcoats was the cyclas, which began as a rectangular piece...

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Middle Ages characterized by full-body steel plate without a surcoat. Around 1420 the surcoat, or "coat of arms" as it was known in England, began to disappear...

early 1652, surcoats with insignia badges started to be worn to indicate the wearer's rank. They were also wearing three-quarter length surcoats, called duanzhao...

appendages such as lance rests or plumeholders, or clothing such as tabards or surcoats, which were often worn over a harness. There are a variety of alternative...

removes the Robe Royal and Stole Royal, exchanges the crimson surcoat for the purple surcoat and is enrobed in the Imperial Robe of purple velvet. The sovereign...