- A
cuir**** (/kwɪˈræs, kjʊəˈræs/ kwirr-****, kure-****; French: cuir****e; Latin: coriaceus) is a
piece of
armour that
covers the torso,
formed of one or more...
-
classical antiquity, the
muscle cuir**** (Latin:
lorica musculata),
anatomical cuir****, or
heroic cuir**** is a type of
cuir**** made to fit the wearer's torso...
- KWIRR-ə-SEER; from
French cuir****ier [kɥiʁasje], 'wearing a
cuir****') were
cavalry equipped with a
cuir****, sword, and pistols. Cuir****iers
first appeared in mid-to-late...
- iron lung
include the so-called
cuir**** ventilator (named for the
cuir****, a torso-covering body armor). The
cuir**** ventilator encloses only the patient's...
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Archaeological Museum of Nafplion.
Several elements of body
armour (body
cuir****,
shoulder guards,
breast plates, and
lower protection plates) from the...
- The
Ksour Essef cuir**** is an
ancient triple-disc
cuir**** found in a
Punic tomb in 1909 not far from
Ksour Essef, Tunisia. This
piece of armour, generally...
- century,
plate armour was
mostly reduced to the
simple breastplate or
cuir**** worn by cuir****iers, with the
exception of the
Polish Hussars that still...
- a
single garment worn
under a
cuir****,
though in a
linen cuir**** (linothorax) they may have been integral. The
cuir**** itself could be
variously constructed:...
- The triple-disc
cuir**** was a type of
bronze cuir**** used in
Southern Italy during the
fifth and
fourth centuries BC. It is
named after the
three discs...
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occidental armour:
Kusari zukin (mail coif)
Mengu (mask)
Kabuto (helmet) Dō (
cuir****) Kote (vambrace and
lower pauldron) Han kote (gauntlet) Sode (roughly pauldron)...
