plate-carrier

English

Noun

plate-carrier (plural plate-carriers)

1. A kind of bulletproof vest.
2. (photography, historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.
   • 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

     The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.