Cuirass

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A piece of armor for protecting the breast and back.
  • n. The breastplate alone.
  • n. A defense or protection: "A carefully primped irony, that cuirass of art in the early Eighties, is necessary—a distance so affected as to constitute a hopeless impediment to feeling” ( Robert Hughes).
  • n. Zoology A protective covering of bony plates or scales.
  • v. To protect with a cuirass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
  • n. The breastplate taken by itself.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
  • n. The breastplate taken by itself.
  • n. An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A piece of defensive armor covering the body from the neck to the girdle, and combining a breastplate and a backpiece.
  • n. Any similar covering, as the protective armor of a ship; specifically, in zoology, some hard shell or other covering forming an indurated defensive shield, as the carapace of a beetle or an armadillo, the bony plates of a mailed fish, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. medieval body armor that covers the chest and back
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    cuirassed    cuirasses    cuirassing   
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