Etymology

cuirie

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Today it means: An item of leather body armor, a forerunner to the cuirass; a cuirass. Full definition →

Middle English quyrre ← Old French cuirie
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The story

  1. Old French · derived fromcuirie
  2. Middle English · inherited fromquyrre
  3. English todaycuirie

From Middle English quyrre, now respelled according to or reborrowed from its source, Old French cuirie (French cuirie).

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishquyrre all →

quarry

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