Stomacher

Quick meaning: Stomacher is a noun meaning A similar item of mail worn over and protecting the stomach.

Meaning

A similar item of mail worn over and protecting the stomach.

More Meanings

1. A blow to the stomach.
2. (now chiefly historical) An ornamental cloth, often embellished with embroidery or jewelry, worn over the chest by women beneath their bodices or by men and women as the central part of an open shirt, blouse, or jacket.
3. (obsolete) A type of men's waistcoat.

Example Sentences

Stomacher brooch of brilliants and fine oriental pearls.

Here, from the fading canvas, smiled Lady Elizabeth Devereux, in her gauze hood, pearl stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves.

From about 1850 onwards jewellery varied between these outsize sprays, stomachers and corsage montages and smaller, more delicate pieces which appeared almost understated by contrast.

Over it he placed a chain mail stomacher. Then, atop all, he strapped on an item of shaped metal he called a tace. “There,”he said at last. “She might knock the windout of you, but she won't kill you.”

Word Forms

• stomachers

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include stomach, truss, waistcoateer, gilet, doublet, strait-waistcoat.

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