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Breast Plate
A breastplate or chestplate is a device worn over the torso to protect it from injury, as an item of religious significance, or as an item of status. A breastplate is sometimes worn by mythological beings as a distinctive item of clothing. It is also a term for a piece of clothing used by drag queens and Crossplay (cosplay), cross-dressing performers, which mimics a woman's cleavage or breasts. European In medieval weaponry, the breastplate is the front portion of plate armour covering the torso. It has been a military mainstay since ancient times and was usually made of leather, bronze or iron in antiquity. By around 1000 AD, solid plates had fallen out of use in Europe and knights of the period were wearing Mail (armour), mail in the form of a hauberk over a padded tunic. Plates protecting the torso reappeared in the 1220s as plates directly attached to a knightly garment known as the surcoat. Around 1250 this developed into the coat of plates which continued to be in use for ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
15th Century Gothic Breastplate
15 (fifteen) is the natural number following 14 (number), 14 and preceding 16 (number), 16. Mathematics 15 is: * A composite number, and the sixth semiprime; its proper divisors being , and . * A deficient number, a smooth number, a lucky number, a pernicious number, a bell number (i.e., the number of partitions for a set of size 4), a pentatope number, and a repdigit in Binary numeral system, binary (1111) and quaternary numeral system, quaternary (33). In hexadecimal, and higher bases, it is represented as F. * A triangular number, a hexagonal number, and a centered tetrahedral number. * The number of partitions of 7 (number), 7. * The smallest number that can be factorized using Shor's algorithm, Shor's quantum algorithm. * The magic constant of the unique order-3 magic square, normal magic square. * The number of supersingular prime (moonshine theory), supersingular primes. Furthermore, * 15 is one of two numbers within the ''teen'' numerical range (13-19) not to u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
