Meaning of silver mail | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Rent that has been paid in money.
   dated, obsolete
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see silver, mail.

Examples

“The colours all inflam’d throughout her train, / She writh’d about, convuls’d with scarlet pain: / A deep volcanian yellow took the place / Of all her milder-mooned body’s grace; / And, as the lava ravishes the mead, / Spoilt all her silver mail, and golden brede; […]”

“In silver mail all shadowy pale, / The moon shines white, so white . . .”

“The flying-fishes in their silver mail / Rose up like stars, and pattered down like hail, […]”

“The gleam of his silver mail was as brilliant as the scarlet cloak rippling from his shoulders.”

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