Lesley Garrett

I would just like to say that opera is no longer about fat people in breastplates shattering wine glasses.

English Musician

Breastplate refers to historic protective gear, rarely used in modern times except in historical reenactments or descriptions.

Historical Armor

The term emphasizes protection in combat, often used in stories or films about knights and warfare.

Protection Focus

Sometimes used metaphorically to describe something that provides emotional or psychological defense.

Metaphoric Usage

Relates to equipment for horses and might confuse those unaware of its specialized equestrian meaning.

Equestrian Gear

A horse breastplate prevents the saddle from sliding back, particularly crucial for learners interested in horse-riding terminology.

Functional Accessory

Relates specifically to ancient religious contexts that might not be familiar to everyone, such as Judeo-Christian traditions.

Religious Garment

In religious texts, breastplates often have symbolic meaning, such as representing tribes or virtues.

Symbolic Significance

Was part of women's fashion in certain historical periods, now mostly encountered in historical literature or drama.

Historical Fashion

Refers to a stiffened part of a garment designed to shape the body, which may be a concept learners encounter in fashion or costume design.

Body Shaping

 which is how that dung-rolling scarab became that sacred scarab on the breastplate of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Beetles, I was reminded, have the most romantic flirtation in the animal kingdom. Fireflies are not flies, fireflies are beetles.

Rives: Reinventing the...

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Reinventing the...

 what are you looking at the surface of some strange planet the breastplate of some kind of mutant science fiction