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A breastplate 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.
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 one of the last pieces of functional armour to be abandoned with the development of firearms, because it protected the vital organs without limiting mobility. They were usually made of leather, bronze or iron in antiquity, of iron during the Migration Period, and then steel during the Middle Ages and ever since. Bullet-proof vests are their modern descendant.
A "breastplate" or "breastpiece" was among the clothes of the Jewish High Priest. In the Bible, the word Breastplate is used figuratively to describe protecting oneself from unrighteousness (cf, Isaiah 59:17, Ephesians 6:14, etc.).
Both Zeus and Athena are sometimes depicted as wearing a goatskin shield or breastplate called an Aegis. At the center of Athena's shield was the head of Medusa.
Spinning to the right in the moment isn’t takin’
Your face will meet my hand in the middle of a fight
All my forgiveness got lost in the love
For getting even for giving you a shove
All alone you’ll be lost in your house
Thrown into the fire, thrown into the light,
Into a dream where only nightmares exist
Give me some water to wash the blood off my fist
Hear your voice, see the loss
Speak the words that never come across or mean a thing
Take the time, give a damn
Forget the sins and sorrows of yesterday
Easy tomorrow, easy tomorrow
Easy way, easy way, easy
No love lost
You say its connotation visits a time when you were right
Can’t pay the cost
More than a summation
Parts of your whole are added up to die
Hear your voice, see the loss
Speak the words that never come across or mean a thing
Take the time, give a damn
Forget the sins and sorrows of yesterday