swordproof

English[edit]

swordproof (comparative more swordproof, superlative most swordproof)

Resistant to blows of a sword.
- 1594 (first publication), Christopher Marlow[e], The Trovblesome Raigne and Lamentable Death of Edvvard the Second, King of England: […], London: […] [Eliot’s Court Press] for Henry Bell, […], published 1622, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  Vnlesse his brest be sword proofe he shall die.
- 1660, Vincent le Blanc, translated by Francis Brooke, The World Surveyed‎^[1], London: John Starkey, Part 3, Chapter 2, p. 332:
  They are dextrous archers, and seldom misse their mark, their bow[s] ten or twelve foot long, and their arrows will pierce a corselet good sword proof […]