plastron

plastron is a   Noun

Definition:

[1] A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. Dryden.

[2] An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk.

[3] The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata.

[4] A trimming for the front of a woman`s dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist.

[5] A combining form denoting the act or process of forming, development, growth; as, autoplasty, perineoplasty.

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