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breastplated en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English brest-plated, equivalent to breastplate + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Wearing a breastplate.
    • Instead of the innocent-seeming group of white-clad supporting characters in “De Sueños,” the opening scene here gives us a more menacing and unrecognizable group dressed in black, masked and breastplated. 2008 March 6, Alastair Macaulay, “When Death (That Bowler-Hatted Gent) Comes Calling in Dreams”, in New York Times: