PLASTRON


Meaning of PLASTRON in English

n.1 a a fencer's leather-covered breastplate. b a lancer's breast-covering of facings-cloth.

2 a an ornamental front on a woman's bodice. b a man's starched shirt-front.

3 a the ventral part of the shell of a tortoise or turtle. b the corresponding part in other animals.

4 hist. a steel breastplate.

Derivatives:

plastral adj.

Etymology: F f. It. piastrone augment. of piastra breastplate, f. L emplastrum PLASTER

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.