Etymology

cuirass

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Today it means: A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. Full definition →

Middle English curasse ← Old French cuirace
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromcuirace
  2. Middle English · inherited fromcurasse
  3. English todaycuirass

First use appears c. 1464. From Middle English curasse, curesse, from Old French cuirace, spelling influenced by modern French cuirasse.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.