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Etymology

From French plastron, from Italian piastrone, augmentive of piastra (“‘breastplate’”), from Latin emplastrum (“‘plaster’”), from Ancient Greek εμπλαστρον, from εμπλαστος (“‘daubed, plastered’”), from εμπλασσειν (“‘to mould, form’”).

Pronunciation

Noun

Singular plastron

Plural plastrons

plastron (plural plastrons)

  1. The nearly flat part of the shell structure of a tortoise or other animal, similar in composition to the carapace
  2. (fencing) A half-jacket worn under the jacket for padding or for safety.
  3. An ornamental front panel on a woman's bodice.
    • 1942: I bought here a wedding dress perhaps twenty or thirty years old [...] a sequin plastron to be worn over the womb as a feminine equivalent to a cod-piece, and a gauze veil embroidered in purple and gold. — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 784)

Esperanto

Noun

plastron

  1. accusative of plastro

French

Noun

plastron m. (plural plastrons)

  1. breastplate (piece of armour)
  2. (fencing) plastron
  3. chest pad; chest protection; chestguard
  4. (zoology) plastron (part of a turtle's shell)
  5. shirt front; the front of a shirt
  6. plastron (ornamental front part of a bodice)
  7. (zoology) breast (front part of certain birds)

Derived terms

 

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