a quilted pad worn in fencing to protect the chest, waist, and sides
the underside of the shell of a tortoise or turtle. Also called breastplate
a shirt front, esp the starched and sometimes embroidered or frilled front of a man's evening or dress shirt
the front part of a type of dress bodice popular during the 19th cent
plastral adj
[early French plastron from Italian piastrone, augmentative of piastra thin metal plate, from Latin emplastrum: see plaster1]