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Definition of Breastplates
1. breastplate [n] - See also: breastplate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Breastplates
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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