breastplate

English

A man wearing a breastplate.

Etymology

From Middle English brestplate, equivalent to breast +‎ plate. Displaced Old English brēostbeorg.

Pronunciation

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Noun

breastplate (plural breastplates)

1. A piece of armor that covers the chest.

   Synonym: chestplate

2. A piece of armor that covers the torso; a cuirass, the breast- (front) and back-plate, taken together as a unit.
   • 2002, Bruce LaFontaine, Warriors Through the Ages, page 6:

     He wears a Thracian-style helmet that protects most of his head and face, and a breastplate or "cuirass" covering his back and chest, both made of bronze.

   • 2011, Tracy Hickman, Song of the Dragon, page 41:

     A massive hand grabbed the back of his breastplate and pulled him back.

3. A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.

   Synonyms: breastcollar, breaststrap, breastgirth

4. A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
5. (Judaism) An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.

Related terms

• breastplated

Translations

armor

• Akkadian: 𒁍𒅀𒄠 (siriam)
• Albanian: tarogzë (sq), parzmore (sq)
• Amharic: ጥሩር (ṭərur)
• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Aramaic:

  Jewish: שִׁרְיוֹן m (širyōn)

  Syriac: ܫܪܝܢܐ m (šeryānā)

• Armenian: լանջապան (hy) (lanǰapan)
• Belarusian: нагруднік m (nahrudnik)
• Bulgarian: нагръ́дник m (nagrǎ́dnik)
• Catalan: cuirassa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 胸甲 (zh) (xiōngjiǎ)

• Czech: kyrys m, náprsník m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: borststuk (nl) n, kuras (nl) n
• Esperanto: kiraso (eo)
• Finnish: rintahaarniska, rintapanssari
• French: cuirasse (fr), poitrail (fr) m, plastron (fr) m
• Galician: loriga m, coiraza f
• Ge'ez: እንግድኣ (ʾəngədʾa), እንግድዓ (ʾəngədʿa)
• Georgian: გულსაფარი (gulsapari)
• German: Brustschild (de) m, Brustpanzer (de) m
• Gothic: 𐌱𐍂𐌿𐌽𐌾𐍉 f (brunjō)
• Greek: θώρακας (el) m (thórakas)

  Ancient: θώραξ m (thṓrax)

• Hebrew: שִׁרְיוֹן (he) m (širyōn)
• Hungarian: mellvért (hu)
• Irish: lúireach f, scaball m, uchtphláta m
• Italian: corazza (it) f
• Japanese: 胸当て (muneate), 胸甲 (ja) (きょうこう, kyōkō)
• Korean: 흉갑(胸甲) (hyunggap)
• Latin: lōrīca f, (Medieval) pectorāle n
• Macedonian: ^{(please verify)} на́дградник m (nádgradnik)
• Malay: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: pātea
• Maranao: kama
• Occitan: coirassa (oc) f
• Ottoman Turkish: گوگسلك (göğüslük)
• Polish: napierśnik (pl) m, kirys (pl) m
• Portuguese: couraça (pt) f
• Romanian: pieptar (ro) n
• Russian: нагру́дник (ru) m (nagrúdnik)
• Scottish Gaelic: uchd-aodach m
• Slovak: náprsník m
• Spanish: peto (es) m
• Swahili: kinga ya kifuani
• Swedish: bröstharnesk c
• Ukrainian: нагру́дник m (nahrúdnyk)
• Vietnamese: giáp ngực

horse tack

• Amharic: ኣምበል m (ʾambäl)
• Arabic: لَبَب m (labab)
• Catalan: pitral (ca) m, petral m
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: rintahihna, rintaremmi
• French: poitrail (fr) m
• Ge'ez: መጉላዕ (mägulaʿ) , ሕንባል (ḥənbal)
• German: Brustriemen m, Vorderzeug n
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: στηθόδεσμος m (stēthódesmos), στηθοδέσμη f (stēthodésmē) , λέπαδνον n (lépadnon), λέπαμνον n (lépamnon)

• Hungarian: szügyelő (hu)
• Italian: pettorale m
• Latin: antilēna f, (Medieval) pectorāle n
• Persian: سینه‌بند (sine-bend), سینه‌پوش (fa) (sine-puš)
• Polish: podpierśnik m, podpiersie n, podpiersień m
• Russian: нагру́дник (ru) m (nagrúdnik)
• Spanish: petral (es) m
• Swedish: förbygel c
• Turkish:

  Arabic: گوگسلك (göğüslük)

  Latin: göğüslük (tr)

• Ukrainian: підгру́ддя f (pidhrúddja), підго́рля f (pidhórlja), підго́рлина f (pidhórlyna), підгру́дник m (pidhrúdnyk), во́ло n (vólo), підши́йок m (pidšýjok)

silicone in the shape of women's breasts

on breast of Jewish high priest

• Dutch: borstplaat (nl) f
• Hebrew: חשֶׁן (he) m (ḥóshen)
• Polish: pektorał (pl) m