plastron

[plas-truhn]

plas·tron

[plas-truhn]
noun
1.
a piece of plate armor for the upper part of the torso in front.
2.
Fencing. a quilted pad worn over part of the torso, for protection.
3.
an ornamental front piece of a woman's bodice.
4.
the starched front of a shirt.
5.
Zoology. the ventral part of the shell of a turtle.

Origin:
1500–10; < Middle French < Italian piastrone, augmentative of piastra metal plate, piaster. See plaster
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plastron (ˈplæstrən)
 
n
the bony plate forming the ventral part of the shell of a tortoise or turtle
 
[C16: via French from Italian piastrone, from piastra breastplate, from Latin emplastrumplaster]
 
'plastral
 
adj

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