Crossword-Solution: PLASTRON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plastron | n. | A piece of leather stuffed or padded, worn by fencers to protect the breast. |
| Plastron | n. | An iron breastplate, worn under the hauberk. |
| Plastron | n. | The ventral shield or shell of tortoises and turtles. See Testudinata. |
| Plastron | n. | A trimming for the front of a woman's dress, made of a different material, and narrowing from the shoulders to the waist. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PLASTRON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| TURTLE shell, lower | 1 answer |
| Torso-protecting armor | 1 answer |
| Turtle's bottom shell. | 1 answer |
| bony plate forming the ventral part of the shell of a tortoise or turtle | 1 answer |
| the part of a turtle's shell forming its underside | 1 answer |
| Turtle shell. | 7 answers |
| A METAL BREASTPLATE THAT WAS WORN UNDER A COAT OF MAIL | 11 answers |
| ARMOR ___ | 26 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AARE
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with PLASTRON (5)
And he knew that Teddy Ashburnham and his wife would give him no trouble whatever except what the smiles of Leonora might cause in his apparently unimpressionable bosom—though you never can tell what may go on behind even a not quite spotless plastron!—And every week Edward Ashburnham would give him a solid, sound, golden English sovereign.
Also on the morrow, returning to the Castle Hill, I stripped the knight whom I had slain with the sword, Wave-Flame, of his splendid Milan mail, whereof the _plastron_, or breast-plate, was inlaid with gold, having over it a _camail_ of chain to cover the joints, through which my good sword had shorn into his neck.
The professor turns the book over and over,--inspects it from plastron to carapace, so to speak, and looks for openings everywhere, sometimes successfully, sometimes in vain.
Bless me! it gave you a lesson, gentlemen snobs, to sustain the honor of the special army, and taught you to respect the black velvet plastron and double red bands on the trousers.
MacLaren, who - professionally protected by his padded leathern ~plastron~ - politely and obligingly did his best to assure him, both by precept and example, of the truth of the wise old saw, "mens sana in corpore sano." The lower room at MacLaren's presented a very different appearance to the fencing-room.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1962–1998).