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Breastplate   /brˈɛstplˌeɪt/   Listen
noun
Breastplate  n.  
1.
A plate of metal covering the breast as defensive armor. "Before his old rusty breastplate could be scoured, and his cracked headpiece mended."
2.
A piece against which the workman presses his breast in operating a breast drill, or other similar tool.
3.
A strap that runs across a horse's breast.
4.
(Jewish Antiq.) A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See Ephod.






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"Breastplate" Quotes from Famous Books



... take thy heart in thrall, Telling o'er thy breastplate, all Colors, in his bubbling speech, ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse

... Girdle being clasped, a priest handed the breastplate to the Emperor. It should, according to the Mosaic command, have been made of the same material as the Ephod—"of gold, of blue, of purple, of scarlet, and of fine ...
— The Mark of the Beast • Sidney Watson

... Paitrelles, breastplate of a horse, Paltocks, short coats, Parage, descent, Pareil, like, Passing, surpassingly, Paynim, pagan, Pensel, pennon, Perclos, partition, Perdy, par Dieu, Perigot, falcon, Perish, destroy, Peron, tombstone, ...
— Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II (of II) - King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table • Thomas Malory

... which this verse is the beginning was obviously deeply imprinted on Paul's mind. It is found in a comparatively incomplete form in his earliest epistle, the first to the Thessalonians, in which the children of the day are exhorted to put on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet the hope of salvation. It reappears, in a slightly varied form, in the Epistle to the Romans, where those whose salvation is nearer than when they believed, are exhorted, because the day is at hand, to cast off, ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... given in proof that the very garments possessed the faculty of making atonement for sin every whit as effectually as animal sacrifices. We are taught that the priest's shirt atones for murder, his drawers atone for whoredom, his mitre for pride, his girdle for evil thoughts, his breastplate for injustice, his ephod for idolatry; his overcoat atones for slander, and the golden plate on his ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various


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