Definition of Breastplates

1. Noun. (plural of breastplate) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Breastplates

1. breastplate [n] - See also: breastplate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Breastplates

breastfuls
breasthook
breasticle
breasticles
breasting
breastings
breastknot
breastknots
breastless
breastlike
breastmilk
breastpin
breastpins
breastplate
breastplated
breastplates (current term)
breastpoint
breastrail
breastrails
breastroke
breastrope
breastropes
breasts
breaststroke
breaststroked
breaststroker
breaststrokers
breaststrokes
breaststroking
breastsummer

Literary usage of Breastplates

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Invasion of the Crimea: Its Origin and an Account of Its Progress Down by Alexander William Kinglake (1887)
"The better to enable French his soldiers before Sebastopol to carry defences by plates, storm, he sent out to them 4000 breastplates. ..."

2. The History of Herodotus: A New English Version, Ed. with Copious Notes and by Herodotus (1862)
"So too with the caparison of their horses, they give them breastplates of brass, but employ gold about the reins, the bit, and the cheek-plates. ..."

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