Etymology

poitrine

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Today it means: The breastplate of a knight's armour. Full definition →

French poitrine
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  1. French · borrowed frompoitrine
  2. English todaypoitrine

From French poitrine or a Middle or Old French predecessor.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.