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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Cuirass \Cui*rass"\ (kw[esl]*r[adot]s", [or] kw[emac]"r[acr]s; 277), n.; pl. {Cuirasses}(-[ecr]z). [F. cuirasse, orig., a breastplate of leather, for OF. cuir[82]e, cuirie influenced by It. corazza, or Sp. coraza, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L. coriaceus, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin to Gr. cho`rion intestinal membrane, OSlav. skora hide, Lith. skura hide, leather. Cf. {Coriaceous}.] 1. (a) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. (b) The breastplate taken by itself. Note: The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron fastened together by means of straps and buckles or other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal. --Grose. 2. (Zo[94]l) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass. | |
