"dossière" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1902, Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia, Proceedings, page 155",
          "text": "The body armor consisted of the plastron and dossière (breast and backplates), strapped together at the sides;[…]",
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          "ref": "1911, Bashford Dean, Catalogue of a Loan Exhibition of Arms and Armor, New York, N.Y.: Metropolitan Museum of Art, page 7",
          "text": "COMPLETE ARMOR Italian (?) ABOUT 1480 A harness [...] Their character is strongly Italian, and so, too, is the treatment of the dossière, of the knee, and of the shell of the elbow-guard.",
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          "text": "It is elaborate armor consisting of large breastplates and dossière connected by leather straps over the shoulders, the two breastplates joined in front under a leather strap which is buckled to a wide leather girdle.",
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