chestguard

plural chestguards · alternative chest guard

1. A piece of fabric, padding, or armor to protect the chest, as in some sports.

   The poet may assume that except when he specifies that warriors had byrnies, we are to accept that they wore only leathern chestguards.

   2016, Jennifer R. Davis, Michael McCormick, The Long Morning of Medieval Europe

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   Available in 5 colors: red. black, white, blue and silver Shin guards, shin/instep guards and chestguards also available. Headguard $35.95 ea.

   2004 July, Black Belt, volume 42, number 7, page 3

   Black leather braces, chain-mail chest guards, and oval and circular shields are the clothing of choice for these women. Firelight flashes off of broadswords and deadly knives.

   2007, Michelle Skye, Goddess Alive!: Inviting Celtic & Norse Goddesses Into Your Life, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN

   Often, I left a bruise: the blade's tip ricocheting off chestguards onto skin. Just as often, I would feel yellow blooms of ache where the girl I thought was beautiful had pierced my heart. Hours later, I would transform.

   2019, Mary Jean Chan, Flèche