Cuirass
This article is devoted to the type of armour known as a cuirass. For details of cavalry wearing cuirasses go to
cuirassier. For information about cuirass ventilation, see the article about the
iron lung Cuirass (
French cuirasse,
Latin coriaceus, made of leather, from corium, the original breastplate being of
leather), the plate
armour, is formed of a single piece of metal or other rigid material or composed of two or more pieces, which covers the front of the wearer's person. In a suit of armour, however, since this important piece was generally worn in connection with a corresponding defence for the back, the term cuirass commonly is understood to imply the complete body-armour, including both the breast and the back plates. Thus this complete body armour appears in the
Middle Ages frequently to have been described as a pair of plates. The corslet (Fr. corselet, diminutive of the Fr. corps, body), a comparatively light cuirass, is more strictly a
breastplate only.
Elizabeth I of England often wore a cuirass.
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