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Cuirassed
Cuirassed Cui*rassed" (kw[-e]*r[.a]st" or kw[=e]"r[a^]st), a. 1. Wearing a cuirass. 2. (Zo["o]l) Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.
Cuirassier
Cuirassier Cui`ras*sier", n. (Mil.) In modern armies, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.
Cuirassier
Cuirassier Cui`ras*sier" (kw?`r?s-s?r"), n. [F. cuirassier. See Curass.] A soldier armed with a cuirass. --Milton.

Meaning of Cuirass from wikipedia

- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- in the Almain rivet, the zischagge, falling buffe, and faulds. Laminar cuir****es were manufactured in ****an as early as the 4th century.Tankō (laminar)...
- 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:...