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cuirass

[ UK /kwɪɹˈæs/ ]
NOUN
  1. medieval body armor that covers the chest and back

How To Use cuirass In A Sentence

  • Like cuirassiers in ancient wars, stamping and leaping high in the air, we drove one another down the short street and then, with this urging in our legs, into the highway. The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
  • On other occasions, large differences were observed, and attributed to air leaks due to thorax/abdomen disproportion and poor fit of the cuirass.
  • Behind the intervals between them might be seen the cohorts of the velites, and further on the great helmets of the Clinabarians, with steel heads glancing in the sun, cuirasses, plumes, and waving standards. Salammbo
  • Body armour, in the form of the iron cuirass, continued to be worn throughout much of the 17th century before its eventual demise.
  • The cuirass was the parade one; the one he had used in battle was too worn and hacked to match the splendors around. Funeral Games
  • Its exquisitely decorated sandal clearly identifies the person represented as an emperor shown in the "cuirassed type," wearing a military uniform. Hadrian at Sagalassos
  • In the first, Herakles tries out his weapons, still wearing the cuirass that bespeaks military engagement, and in the second, he strips down and turns to physical force alone.
  • As you may recall, I painted the first squadron of the Alt Modena cuirassier regiment earlier in the month. Archive 2009-08-01
  • By my count, the Prussian had only committed 5 of their 12 battalions to the battle so far, and on their right wing, their powerful cuirassier brigade seemed to be gaining the upper hand in the cavalry fight and they still had the Jung Krakow dragoons and the Prinz von Preussen CR2 cuirassiers around Sagschutz. Archive 2009-03-01
  • Matho had lost his shoulder-pieces, his helmet, his cuirass; he was completely naked, and more livid than the dead, with his hair quite erect, and two patches of foam at the corners of his lips, — and his sword whirled so rapidly that it formed an aureola around him. Salammbo
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