Definition of Placcate

1. a type of breastplate [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Placcate

placards
placate
placated
placater
placaters
placates
placating
placatingly
placationist
placations
placative
placatively
placatory
placcat
placcate (current term)
placcates
placcats
place
place-kick
place-kicker
place-kicking
place-name
place-names
place-worship
place an order
place bet
place card
place cards
place down

Literary usage of Placcate

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

1. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"See DEMI-placcate. J. Cruso, in his "Militarie Instructions for the Cavallerie," 1632, mentions that the Lancer was to wear a gorget, a breast and back, ..."

2. An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1840)
"Another piece of armour, worn on the breast, was the placcate or ... A Shoulder- shield was occasionally screwed on the placcate; and it formed a grand ..."

3. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the by Frederick William Fairholt (1860)
"See DUMI-placcate. PLACKET. A woman's petticoat. It has occasioned some confusion among the Shakspeare commentators by being confounded with the ..."

4. An endeavour to classify the sepulchral remains in Northamptonshire, or a by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1840)
"Another piece of armour, worn on the breast, was the placcate or ... A Shoulder- shield was occasionally screwed on the placcate; and it formed a grand ..."

5. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"See DEMI-placcate. PLACKET. A woman's petticoat. It has occasioned some confusion among the ... or placcate. PLASTRON-DE-FER. ..."

6. A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses: With a Descriptive Catalogue by Herbert Haines, Oxford Architectural Society (1848)
"... the demi-placcate was often omitted, and lance-rests were of frequent occurrence ; the pauldrons were smaller, usually of two plates equal in size, ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The body was protected with the "globose" breastplate till about 1450 when it was reinforced with the "demi-placcate"1 (or ..."

8. Costume in England: A History of Dress to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Frederick William Fairholt (1885)
"See DEMI-placcate. J. Cruso, in his "Militarie Instructions for the Cavallerie," 1632, mentions that the Lancer was to wear a gorget, a breast and back, ..."

9. An Endeavor to Classify the Sepulchral Remains in Northamptonshire, Or, a by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1840)
"Another piece of armour, worn on the breast, was the placcate or ... A Shoulder- shield was occasionally screwed on the placcate; and it formed a grand ..."

10. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Until the by Frederick William Fairholt (1860)
"See DUMI-placcate. PLACKET. A woman's petticoat. It has occasioned some confusion among the Shakspeare commentators by being confounded with the ..."

11. An endeavour to classify the sepulchral remains in Northamptonshire, or a by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1840)
"Another piece of armour, worn on the breast, was the placcate or ... A Shoulder- shield was occasionally screwed on the placcate; and it formed a grand ..."

12. Costume in England: A History of Dress from the Earliest Period Till the by Frederick William Fairholt (1846)
"See DEMI-placcate. PLACKET. A woman's petticoat. It has occasioned some confusion among the ... or placcate. PLASTRON-DE-FER. ..."

13. A Manual for the Study of Monumental Brasses: With a Descriptive Catalogue by Herbert Haines, Oxford Architectural Society (1848)
"... the demi-placcate was often omitted, and lance-rests were of frequent occurrence ; the pauldrons were smaller, usually of two plates equal in size, ..."

14. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The body was protected with the "globose" breastplate till about 1450 when it was reinforced with the "demi-placcate"1 (or ..."

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