Noun: cuirasse
| Singular | cuirasse |
| Plural | cuirasses |
Sample Sentences
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As to the equipment of the Russian warrior of the period, his armor consisted of a helmet, a cuirasse, and a shield; and his standard weapons were the sword and the spear; bows and arrows were also used, […] [1973, George Vernadsky, Kievan Russia, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 193:]
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[…] now had a lighter armour called three-quarter armour, comprising a cuirasse, jointed elements protecting the shoulders, arms and the front of the thighs, a doublet protecting the ... [2013, St'phane Thion, French Armies of the Thirty Years' War, LRT Editions, →ISBN, page 52:]
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In Boilly's illustration, the Maid appears clad in a dress with a long skirt and puffed and slashed sleeves, a whiteplumed hat, a hauberk (or mail tunic) and a cuirasse (armor for the breast and back). She stands with her sword upheld ... [2017, Nora M. Heimann, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700?855): From Satire to Sanctity, Routledge, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like cuirasse
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French cuirasse. See: French Nouns '
cuirasse'.