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plastron

plast·ron

UK/ˈplæstɹən/ uncommon

noun

1.

the ornamental front of a woman''s bodice or shirt

2.

the front of man''s dress shirt

3.

a metal breastplate that was worn under a coat of mail

4.

a large pad worn by a fencer to protect the chest

5.

(zoology) the part of a turtle''s shell forming its underside

Origin

Borrowed from French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“breastplate”), from Latin emplastrum (“plaster”), from Ancient Greek ἔμπλαστρον (émplastron), from ἔμπλαστος (émplastos, “daubed, plastered”), from ἔμπλασσειν (émplassein, “to mould, form”).

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