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plate-carrier en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A kind of bulletproof vest.
2. (historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.
   • The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing. 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:

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