Les Misérables vocabulary

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plastron

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1. a breastplate (armor)
2. the bottom of a tortoise shell

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Nothing could be more bizarre and at the same time more motley than this troop. One had a round-jacket, a cavalry sabre, and two holster-pistols, another was in his shirt-sleeves, with a round hat, and a powder-horn slung at his side, a third wore a plastron of nine sheets of gray paper and was armed with a saddler’s awl.

Victor Hugo. Les Misérables
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The Queen's importunities decided the King to have a plastron made, to ward off a poniard thrust. Composed of fifteen thicknesses of Italian taffeta, this plastron consisted of a vest and a large belt. Madame Campan secretly tried it on the King in the chamber where Marie Antoinette was lying.

Imbert de Saint-Amand. Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty. Elizabeth Martin translation (1899)
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