breastplate (piece of armour covering the chest and sometimes the back) · armour (protective plates covering some lizards and fish) · armour, armour plate (metal plating covering a ship for protection)
çekim: çoğul cuirasses
köken: From Old French cuirace, probably borrowed from Old Occitan coirassa, or Italian corazza, or Old Aragonese cuyraça, from Late Latin coriacea (vestis) (“leather (garment)”), from coriaceus, ultimately from Latin corium, and probably influenced by cuir in French. Doublet of coriace.
western-style armor for the chest: a breastplate · a chest protector used in traditional Japanese firefighting · a cloth bib or chest covering worn as protection from the sun by travelers or messengers, or as protection from food and spills by children or workers
köken: Compound of 胸 (mune, “chest”) + 当て (ate, “placing or applying one thing to another”, the 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “continuative or stem form”) of verb 当てる (ateru, “to place or apply one thing to another”)), literally meaning "thing placed or applied to the chest". Attested from 1603 in the Nippo Jisho. Sometimes also encountered with a vowel shift, as munaate. This reading is attested slightly earlier,…