Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | English word BREASTPLATE

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Definitions of BREASTPLATE

1. A piece of armor that covers the chest.
2. A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
3. 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.
4. (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.

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Examples of Using BREASTPLATE in a Sentence

• The use of the term "cuirass" generally refers to both the breastplate and the backplate pieces; whereas a breastplate only protects the front, a cuirass protects both the front and the back of the wearer.
• Priestly breastplate, called a 'rational' in older Biblical translations, from the Vulgate name for the breastplate: 'rationale'.
• St Gildas, the Welsh author of the , is also credited with the , or Breastplate, an apotropaic charm against evil that is written in a curiously learned vocabulary; this too probably relates to an education in the Irish styles of Latin.
• The work was divided into four sections, each called a "tur," alluding to the columns of jewels on the High Priest's breastplate.
• Although the phrase "Ironside" suggests heavily armoured men, Cromwell's troops were equipped in the common cavalry style of the day, termed the harquebusier, with armour limited to a back and breastplate, and "pot" helmet.
• The upper part of the helmet, known colloquially as the hat or bonnet, may be sealed directly to the diver using a neck dam, connected to a diving suit by a lower part, known as a breastplate, or corselet, depending on regional language preferences, or simply rest on the diver's shoulders, with an open bottom, for shallow water use.
• After the mid-17th century, plate armour was mostly reduced to the simple breastplate or cuirass worn by cuirassiers, with the exception of the Polish Hussars that still used considerable amounts of plate.
• In the later part of the 17th century, the cuirassier lost his limb armour and subsequently wore only the cuirass (breastplate and backplate), and sometimes a helmet.
• A passage in the Book of Exodus describes the Ephod as an elaborate garment worn by the high priest, and upon which the Priestly breastplate containing the Urim and Thummim rested.
• The Archdruid's regalia, devised by the early revivers of the eisteddfod during the early 19th century, includes a crown, a sceptre, and a breastplate in the form of a torc.
• On the day of the elections, Cicero attended wearing a breastplate under his tunic in an attempt to raise the alarm in the Senate and provoke the fear that Catiline might resort to violence as consul.
• If the Sanhedrin was still uncertain, divine opinion was sought through the Urim ve-Tumim (the parchment in the High Priest's breastplate, which was inscribed with the Name of God and could give supernatural clues).
• Tiamat gave Qingu the Tablet of Destinies, which he wore as a breastplate and which gave him great power.
• Unlike previous gorget plates and bevors which sat over the cuirass and also required a separate mail collar to fully protect the neck, the developed gorget was worn under the cuirass and was intended to cover a larger area of the neck, nape, shoulders and upper chest, from which the edges of the backplate and breastplate had receded.
• His pouting mouth symbolizes his defiance, the face on his chest forms a symbolic breastplate that gives protection during battle, and the honed faces on his thighs represent revolutionaries from Guyanese history.
• In 2010, Ken Cuccinelli, attorney general of Virginia, gave his staff lapel pins with Virtus's bosom covered by an armored breastplate.
• Nardi also lauds Humphreys' theoretical work, especially his concept of the breastplate of righteousness.
• The most notable people using this type of breastplate is Gajah Mada, which is reported by Sundanese patih as wearing golden embossed karambalangan, armed with gold-layered spear, and with a shield full of diamond decoration.
• Log-a-Log Urfa takes Tiria to Cuthbert Blanedale Frunk, a Long Patrol hare in the service of Lord Mandoral Highpeak at Salamandastron, where she receives a sling from the Badger Lord made of shark skin and the breastplate of the High Rhulain.
• It was commonly used to augment other armour types, predominantly mail, but also plate armour taking the form of a cuirass over mail, scale pauldrons, or faulds (the lower part of a breastplate that protects the lower stomach, hips and groin).
• Like the pourpoint, its ancestor, the doublet was used by soldiers in the 15th and 16th centuries to facilitate the wearing of the brigandine, breastplate, cuirass and plackart which had to cut into the waist in order to shift their weights from the shoulders to the hips.
• They were organized into a company - today a British cavalry squadron - of 80 carabinieri; each wearing a black dragoon helmet with crest and a black breastplate with a cross on the chest, white suede trousers and white gauntlets, high boots and silver spurs.
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  Asher: a tree
  Dan: Scales of justice
  Judah: Kinnor, cithara and crown, symbolising King David
  Reuben: Mandrake (Genesis 30:14)
  Joseph: Palm tree and sheaves of wheat, symbolizing his time in Egypt
  Naphtali: gazelle (Genesis 49:21)
  Issachar: Sun, moon and stars (1 Chronicles 12:32)
  Simeon: towers and walls of the city of Shechem
  Benjamin: jug, ladle and fork
  Gad: tents, symbolizing their itinerancy as cattle-herders
  Zebulun: ship, due to their bordering the Sea of Galilee and Mediterranean
  Levi: Priestly breastplate.
• More acute was the distinct lack of heavy cavalry regiments to perform shock attacks; Münnich introduced three elite guard cavalry regiments (peers to the three guard infantry regiments) and several regiments of heavy cuirassiers (named for the heavy breastplate or cuirass they wore) to fill out this role.
• Clibanarii/Cataphract cavalry: helmet, hauberk (Pahlavi griwban), breastplate, mail, gauntlet (Pahlavi abdast), girdle, thigh-guards (Pahlavi ran-ban) sword, mace, bowcase with two bows and two bowstrings, quiver with 30 arrows, two extra bowstrings, and horse armour (zen-abzar).

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