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breastplated

breastplated adjective: wearing a breastplate.

Adjective

breastplated (not comparable)

  1. Wearing 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 of breastplated

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

Questions about breastplated

What does breastplated mean?
Breastplated means wearing a breastplate.
What part of speech is breastplated?
Breastplated is an adjective.

Words near breastplated in the dictionary

  1. breastmilks
  2. Breaston
  3. breastpin
  4. breastpins
  5. breastplate
  6. breastplated
  7. breastplates
  8. breastplough
  9. breastploughs
  10. breastplow
  11. breastplows

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