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breastplates

n. (plural of breastplate English)

Usage examples of "breastplates".

The Persians wore little armour save brocaded breastplates, and the Macedonians surged through them to the far bank.

The Cuirassiers wore steel breastplates, helmets and backplates, and rode the heaviest horses of all the French cavalry.

But the distance was too great, the sun gleaming from too many breastplates, shields and helms for him to pick out his enemy.

Attalus gathered the ten members of the Royal Guard, inspecting their bronze breastplates and helms, their scabbards and greaves.

King walked from the palace doors, the ten guards beating their fists upon their breastplates in greeting.

The Makedones were close enough now for him to see the bright sunburst emblems on their black breastplates, and their lance-points glittering in the sunlight.

Several men tried to run back to the trail, but the huge form of the minotaur Brontes appeared, his double-headed axe slicing through their breastplates and helms.

The slaves, in their new breastplates and leather kilts, drove the officers training them to distraction.

Flanking them were the 10,000 Regulars, powerful fighting men, highly trained, their helms and breastplates of polished iron gleaming like silver.

Against them were ranged some 4,000 Illyrian irregulars in their red breastplates and horned helms.

They found a few more breastplates, but one was sliced in half and another was one big dent.

He saw black-pleated capes and silver breastplates with designs upon them.

The heraldry of the House of Galland, the same as appeared upon breastplates of the Royal Guard.

The many shiny breastplates carrying the broadsword and lion were covered in blood.

She recognized these warriors from tapestries and frescoes, with their hammered breastplates and crested helmets: the soldiers who carried the banner of the old Dariyan Empire.