breastplate

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Then you can bask in the joy of the anonymity of being the guy who walks around with a breastplate.

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armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass

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noun

armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass

Definitions

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noun

armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass

Example sentences

Then you can bask in the joy of the anonymity of being the guy who walks around with a breastplate.

If you wore armour like say the old Greek breastplate-and-shinguards, there's a lot of space to travel with no copper conduit.

Steel breastplates are about 2mm at their thickest, typically.

For instance the Jewish high priest wears a hoshen or breastplate with samples of 12 different minerals attached to it.

" In terms of things that actually make a positive difference in the world, it's right up there with "that breastplate I want for my Warcraft paladin won't drop.

And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running to battle.

For me, its major sin is cod-medieval spellings — "Ser Jaime misliked his pease porridge" — and invented idioms — "much and more", "mummer's farce", "nipples on a breastplate".

It looks as though they're pursuing the unarmored combat of Liechtenauer than the armored knight combat of later period, where swords basically stopped being useful against breastplates and the like and folks went in more for maces and war hammers.

The news cycle keeps speeding up, and other than Trump's apparently locating the teflon breastplate created by Reagan and then found again by Bill Clinton, every news cycle is an opportunity for a candidate to completely flame out.

In 1999 the co-founder of Corel Corp., who’d gotten his start at Nortel’s precursor company, threw a gala at which his wife showed up in a C$1 million leather bodysuit with an anatomically correct gold breastplate and a 15-carat-diamond nipple.

> In 1999 the co-founder of Corel Corp., who’d gotten his start at Nortel’s precursor company, threw a gala at which his wife showed up in a C$1 million leather bodysuit with an anatomically correct gold breastplate and a 15-carat-diamond nipple.

Anatomically speaking, it has the right parts, but Dürer imagined all sorts of things that aren't real:He depicts an animal with hard plates that cover its body like sheets of armour, with a gorget at the throat, a solid-looking breastplate, and rivets along the seams.