The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See peytrel.(noun)
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Use "poitrel" in a sentence
"A jeTsel or other ornament to bang about one's neck, a poitrel of a horje."
"For every stud of silver on his casque of bronze he must have fought in a pitched battle; and for each tuft of hair upon his charger’s poitrel he must have slain a foe in hand-to-hand encounter."