むなあて

Japanese

Definitions

For pronunciation and definitions of むなあて – see the following entry.

[noun] western-style armor for the chest: a breastplate

[noun] a chest protector used in traditional Japanese firefighting

[noun] (by extension) a cloth bib or chest covering worn as protection from the sun by travelers or messengers, or as protection from food and spills by children or workers

[noun] (fashion) the front portion of an apron, jumper dress, or overalls that extends above the waist and covers the front of the body

[noun] (archery) a plastron, a chestguard, used in 弓道 (kyūdō, “traditional Japanese archery”) to protect the chest from the bowstring (more commonly, but not exclusively, used by women)

[noun] a guess, an estimate, a conjecture

(This term, むなあて (munāte), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)