plastron

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A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety
An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice
The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace
{n} a piece of stuffed lether
The padded jacket worn while fencing
A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist
The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles
(zoology) the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail the front of man's dress shirt the ornamental front of a woman's bodice or shirt
{i} metal breastplate or shield; protective chest covering worn by fencers
An ornamental front panel on a womans bodice
A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast
An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk
Turkish - English
plastron
plastron

    Hyphenation

    plas·tron

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    Etymology

    [ 'plas-tr&n ] (noun.) circa 1507. From French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“breastplate”), from Latin emplastrum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek εμπλαστρον, from εμπλαστος (“daubed, plastered”), from εμπλασσειν (“to mould, form”).
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