poitrine
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
French poitrine or a Middle or Old French predecessor.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
poitrine (plural poitrines)
- (historical) The breastplate of a knight's armour.
- Synonym of poitrel (“chest-armor for a horse”)
- 1924, Albert Frederick Calvert, Spain: An Historical and Descriptive Account of Its Architecture, Landscape, and Arts, page 58:
- The horse-armour of the harnesses (A37-38), on the contrary, seems to have been made for the Emperor Maxmilian, […] The ear-coverings of the one are shaped like rams ' horns, and the poitrine, or breast-plate, is embossed with grotesque faces.
- 1936, Frank Gair Macomber, Arms and Armor, Oriental and European Examples of the XV to XVIII Centuries: Valuable Gothic and Renaissance Tapestries
- IMPORTANT Suit of TURKISH HORSE ARMOR XV Century
- Composed of : chanfron, neck defences, poitrine, croupiere and side pieces of rectangular plates of steel joined by riveted links of mail; saddle, bridle, and stirrups.
- 1924, Albert Frederick Calvert, Spain: An Historical and Descriptive Account of Its Architecture, Landscape, and Arts, page 58:
- Chest, bosom, especially of a woman.
- 2018, Jerome Bixby, Devilish Tales: A collection of droll, teasing and very wicked fantasies, Digital Parchment Press
- Full red lips and a patrician nose, and a delicately formed but ample poitrine that curled Pierre's hands into iron hooks beneath the counter. "Forgive me, kind sir," she said, in a voice like music in a bedroom, […]
- 2008, Leslie Carroll, Royal Affairs: A Lusty Romp Through the Extramarital Adventures That Rocked the British Monarchy, Penguin (→ISBN), page 326:
- Her bodices fully covered her ample poitrine right up to her nonexistent neck.
- 2010, Dick Cavett, Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets, Macmillan (→ISBN)
- (She points to her ID badge, situated on her ample poitrine, allowing my next unforgivable remark.) DC: Men don't have those.
- 2018, Jerome Bixby, Devilish Tales: A collection of droll, teasing and very wicked fantasies, Digital Parchment Press
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Etymology[edit]
From Old French peitrine, from Vulgar Latin *pectorīna from the Classical Latin pectus. Gradually replaced pis, now meaning udder. Compare Spanish pretina (“waistband”), which is cognate.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
poitrine f (plural poitrines)
- chest (of body)
- Il a la poitrine velue.
- (please add an English translation of this usage example)
- breast (of body)
- breast (of poultry, as meat)
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Further reading[edit]
- “poitrine”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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