Cuirasses
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Name (Hebrew)
שריוני חזה
Name (Latin)
Cuirasses
Other forms of name
Corselets (Body armor)
Corslets (Body armor)
Lorica (Body armor)
See Also From tracing topical name
Body armor
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q182731
Library of congress:
sh2003004803
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Lorica segmentata, 2002:v. 1, p. 1 (body armour made of strips of mild steel plate, known today by the term lorica segmentata; lorica ("body armour" or "cuirass"); the type of armour that has become known as lorica segmentata was an articulated cuirass; most of the body armour used by the Roman army was articulated to some extent, insofar as the majority of cuirasses were of mail, scale, or segmental armour)
- Web. 3(cuirass 1a. A piece of armor made orig. of leather and covering the body from neck to girdle; esp one consisting of a coupled breastplate and backpiece -- usu. used in pl.: a pair of cuirasses. b. The breastplate of such a piece. c. Any ancient close-fitting body armor; lorica 1. A Roman cuirass of leather or metal)
- Amer. Heritage dict. of the Engl. lang., c2002(cuirass 1a. A piece of armor for protecting the breast and back b. The breastplate alone; lorica 2. A cuirass or corselet worn by Roman soldiers)
- Random House Web. unabr. dict., c1997(cuirass 1. Also called corselet. defensive armor for the torso comprising a breastplate and backplate, originally made of leather. 2. either of the plates forming such armor; corselet, also corslet. Armor. a. a suit of light half armor or three-quarter armor of the 16th century or later b. cuirass (def. 1); lorica 2. A cuirass or corselet, originally of leather)
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Indian steel cuirass 17th to 18th century
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Wikipedia description:
A cuirass ( kwirr-ASS, kure-ASS; French: cuirasse; Latin: coriaceus) is a piece of armour that covers the torso, formed of one or more pieces of metal or other rigid material. The word probably originates from the original material, leather, from the French cuirace and Latin word coriacea. The use of the term "cuirass" generally refers to both the breastplate and the backplate pieces; whereas a breastplate only protects the front, a cuirass protects both the front and the back of the wearer.
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