单词 | breastplate |
释义 | breastplate From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Militarybreastplatebreast‧plate /ˈbrestpleɪt/ noun [countable]PMa leather or metal protective covering worn over the chest by soldiers during battles in the pastExamples from the Corpusbreastplate• He's looking resplendent, you didn't know that he has a breastplate of medals, did you?• A breastplate of darkness hid all the windows except one.• Strap on your bodices, jerkins and breastplates.• Carlo was large as a steroid junkie yet not puffy-firmly outlined, with a chest like an armor breastplate.• His breastplate was the aegis, awful to behold; his bird was the eagle, his tree the oak.• He tugged off the leather breastplate, then the tunic, and brushed at the blood.• This is comparable to wearing a mail shirt or breastplate, conferring a D6 saving throw of 6. |
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