Tunic.
They wore velmezes under their harness, that they might be able to bear it, and then their mail, which was as bright as the sun: over this they had ermine or other skins, laced tight that the armour might not be seen, and under their cloaks, their swords which were sweet and sharp.
Ferrando's breast-plate was threefold; two plates the spear went clean through, and drove the third in before it, with the velmez and the shirt, into the breast, near his heart;...and the girth and the poitral of his horse burst, and he and the saddle went together over the horse's heels, and the spear in him, and all thought him dead.