Associations to the word «Breastplate»

Wiktionary

BREASTPLATE, noun. A piece of armor that covers the chest.
BREASTPLATE, noun. A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.

Dictionary definition

BREASTPLATE, noun. Armor plate that protects the chest; the front part of a cuirass.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope