cuirasse

plural cuirasses

1. countableuncountablegeographyThe armour-like crust that forms upon the exposure of a lateritic soil profile.
2. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of cuirass (“breastplate”).

   […] now had a lighter armour called three-quarter armour, comprising a cuirasse, jointed elements protecting the shoulders, arms and the front of the thighs, a doublet protecting the ...

   2013, St'phane Thion, French Armies of the Thirty Years' War, LRT Editions, →ISBN, page 52

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   As to the equipment of the Russian warrior of the period, his armor consisted of a helmet, a cuirasse, and a shield; and his standard weapons were the sword and the spear; bows and arrows were also used, […]

   1973, George Vernadsky, Kievan Russia, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 193

   In Boilly's illustration, the Maid appears clad in a dress with a long skirt and puffed and slashed sleeves, a whiteplumed hat, a hauberk (or mail tunic) and a cuirasse (armor for the breast and back). She stands with her sword upheld ...

   2017, Nora M. Heimann, Joan of Arc in French Art and Culture (1700?855): From Satire to Sanctity, Routledge, →ISBN