breastplated

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adjective

Wearing a breastplate.

OriginMiddle English brest-plated →
Scrabble 17
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Meanings

adjectivebreastplated (not comparable)
  1. not comparableWearing 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

Origin

  1. Middle Englishbrest-plated
  2. Englishbreastplated

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

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APA

breastplated. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breastplated

MLA

“breastplated.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breastplated. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “breastplated,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/breastplated.

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