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A breastplate is a piece of armour — leather or metal — worn over the chest by soldiers in old battles, so a sword or arrow would hit the plate instead of the body. Knights wore one as part of a full suit. Breast here again means the chest, so men wore breastplates too; it is not a piece of women's clothing. Though actually, the word still lives in a couple of smaller uses: a strap on a horse that stops the saddle sliding back is also called a breastplate, and very old church language uses it for a ceremonial piece on the chest. For a , the main picture is the armour.
胸甲
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
breastplatenoun/ˈbɹɛstˌpleɪt/
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A piece of armor that covers the chest.
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A piece of armor that covers the torso; a cuirass, the breast- (front) and back-plate, taken together as a unit.
- He wears a Thracian-style helmet that protects most of his head and face, and a breastplate or "cuirass" covering his back and chest, both made of bronze.
- A massive hand grabbed the back of his breastplate and pulled him back.
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A piece of horse tack designed to prevent the saddle slipping backwards.
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A piece of silicone in the shape of women's breasts worn by drag queens and other female impersonators to simulate a female body shape.
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An embroidered square of linen worn on the breast of the Jewish high priest, bearing twelve precious stones, each inscribed with the name of one of the tribes of Israel.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。