Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In medieval armor, same as placcate.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun archaic A strong metal plate used to reinforce the lower part of the breastplate in a suit of plate armor. A placard.

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Examples

  • "Well, what is it, Joe?" asked my mistress without troubling herself to close the open plaquet through which two still plump and pinky breasts unwinkingly peered.

    The Story of a Slave. A Realistic Revelation of a Social Relation of Slave Times--Hitherto Unwritten--From the Pen of One Who Has Felt Both the Lash and the Caress of a Mistress No Author 1894

  • They would go to the utmost borders of honesty for a couronne de Brabant, or a demi-couronne, or a double escalin, or a single escalin, or a plaquet, or a livre, or a sous, or a liard, or for any the vilest denomination of their absurd coin, yet I do not believe they would go beyond the bounds of honesty with any but an English Milor: they are privileged dupes.

    The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 1 Maria Edgeworth 1808

  • Their custom of preparing for baptism was as follows: the Indian women raised the children to the age of three, placing for the boys a small white plaquet, fastened to the head in the hair of the tonsure; the girls wore a thin cord tied very low about the waist, to which was attached a small shell over the private parts; to remove these two things was regarded among them as a sin and disgraceful, until the time of the baptism, which was given between the ages of three and twelve; until this ceremony was received they did not marry.

    KSL / U.S. / National 2009

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