plate-carrier

English

Noun

plate-carrier (plural plate-carriers)

A kind of bulletproof vest.
(photography, historical) A thin black frame used to hold a photographic plate in early cameras.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London, New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
  The cases of ammunition and of food were scattered about in a wild litter, together with our unfortunate cameras and plate-carriers, but none of them were missing.

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