bodyplate

English

Etymology

From body +‎ plate.

Noun

bodyplate (plural bodyplates)

1. A protective plate that covers the torso.
   • 1891, John W[illiam] Bradley, The Life and Works of Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Miniaturist, with Notices of His Contemporaries, and of the Art of Book Decoration in the Sixteenth Century, London: Bernard Quaritch, […], page 222:

     His horse and himself are both heavily laden with armour of a most elaborate kind, but quite fanciful; for instance, there is a small spade-shaped shield on his gorget containing the three lilies, a lion’s head on his breastplate, and a scorpion or lobster on his bodyplate, beneath which he wears a briganture of mail.

   • 1994, Daniel Santos, Luminous Essence: Body Talks To Body, Santa Fe, N.M.: Luminous Press, →ISBN, page 127:

     The men and women at the picnic were plastered into limited ways of acting, with limited body movements. It was as if they moved with plastic bodyplates in front of them, and the children were being herded into the bodyplates of learned behavior being passed down to them through their parents. Watching the men, the women, the children, I imagined them waking each morning and fitting into their bodyplates.

   • 1996, Simon Calder, Emily Hatchwell, Travellers Survival Kit: Cuba, Oxford, Oxon: Vacation Work, […], →ISBN, page 308:

     On the other side of the square, the Museo Histórico is a modest affair, with just a couple of rooms — the first room devoted to the aborigines and the Conquest (with what is purported to be the original bodyplate of a Spanish conquistador) and the second to local people who distinguished themselves either during the guerrilla campaign or since.

   • 2004, Paul Finch, “Calibos”, in Robert Hood, Robin Pen, editors, Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales, Wollongong, N.S.W.: Agog! Press, published 2005 March, →ISBN, page 140:

     Almost as an afterthought, he reached up to check that the camera lens in the left shoulder-pad of his Kevlar bodyplate wasn’t obstructed, then adjusted his helmet mike. It wasn’t a new experience for them go into battle with each man hooked up to Ops via combined video and audio links.

   • 2012, Daniel Cade, The Last Pure Warrior, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 46:

     Inside it had rows upon rows of armour. Some rows of helmets, some of platelegs, bodyplates, gauntlets and boots.

   • 2013, John French, Ahriman: Exile (Warhammer 40,000), Nottingham, Notts.: Black Library, →ISBN, page 341:

     There was blood in his armour, too. He could feel it sticking to the inside of his bodyplate like a second skin.