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Type of armour that covers the torso
A cuirass (/kwɪˈræs, kjʊəˈræs/ kwih-RASS, kyuu-RASS; French: cuirasse; Latin: coriaceus) is a piece of armour that covers the torso, formed of one or
Cuirass
Negative-pressure mechanical respirator
which can be powered manually or mechanically. Smaller versions, like the cuirass ventilator and jacket ventilator, enclose only the patient's torso. Breathing
Iron_lung
Type of heavy cavalry that wore a cuirass
KWIRR-ə-SEER; French: [kɥiʁasje]; French for 'one wearing a cuirass') was a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass, sword, and pistols. Cuirassiers first appeared in
Cuirassier
Classical form of plate armor worn over the male torso
classical antiquity, the muscle cuirass (Latin: lorica musculata), anatomical cuirass, or heroic cuirass is a type of cuirass made to fit the wearer's torso
Muscle_cuirass
15th century BC Mycenaean panoply
Archaeological Museum of Nafplion. Several elements of body armor (body cuirass, shoulder guards, breast plates, and lower protection plates) from the
Dendra_panoply
Type of cuirass (armour)
meaning "four mirrors"; whence Kazakh: шар-айна, şar-ayna), is a type of cuirass that was used mainly in Asia and Eastern Europe, including India, Iran
Mirror_armour
Personal body armour made from metal plates
century, plate armour was mostly reduced to the simple breastplate or cuirass worn by cuirassiers, with the exception of the Polish Hussars that still
Plate_armour
Ancient Greek cuirass at the Bardo National Museum
The Ksour Essef cuirass is an ancient triple-disc cuirass found in a Punic tomb in 1909 not far from Ksour Essef, Tunisia. This piece of armour is of
Ksour_Essef_cuirass
Historical form of cavalry
and armour-piercing spikes. The typical harquebusier would have an iron cuirass with a breast and backplate, and an open-faced helmet such as a lobster-tailed
Harquebusier
Decorative leather or fabric strips worn by Roman and Greek soldiers
a single garment worn under a cuirass, though in a linen cuirass (linothorax) they may have been integral. The cuirass itself could be variously constructed
Pteruges
Seal and emblem of the US Department of the Army
the center is a Roman cuirass below a vertical unsheathed sword, point up, the pommel resting on the neck opening of the cuirass and a Phrygian cap supported
Seal and emblem of the United States Department of the Army
Seal_and_emblem_of_the_United_States_Department_of_the_Army
Ancient type of armor breastplate
The triple-disc cuirass was a type of bronze cuirass used in Southern Italy during the fifth and fourth centuries BC. It is named after the three discs
Triple-disc_cuirass
Japanese armour for the torso
Dō or dou (胴) "breastplate, cuirass" is one of the major components of Japanese armour worn by the samurai and ashigaru or foot soldiers of feudal Japan
Dō_(armour)
British military unit
On ceremonial occasions, The Life Guards wear a scarlet tunic, a metal cuirass and a matching helmet with a white plume worn bound on the top into an
Life_Guards_(United_Kingdom)
Armor originating from Japan
armour first appeared in the 4th century, as evidenced by the discovery of cuirasses and basic helmets in graves. During the Heian period (794–1185), the unique
Japanese_armour
Painting by Velázquez
The Portrait of Philip IV in Armour is a portrait of Philip IV of Spain by Velázquez now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. It is one of the artist's most
Portrait of Philip IV in Armour
Portrait_of_Philip_IV_in_Armour
Type of armor from ancient Greece
other warriors in the Aegean wearing the linothorax instead of a bronze cuirass. This could have been due to the lower price, lesser weight, or cooler
Linothorax
Type of armour
in the Almain rivet, the zischagge, falling buffe, and faulds. Laminar cuirasses were manufactured in Japan as early as the 4th century.Tankō (laminar)
Laminar_armour
Method to mechanically assist or replace spontaneous breathing
larger formats. The prominent design of the smaller devices is known as the cuirass, a shell-like unit used to create negative pressure only to the chest using
Mechanical_ventilation
primarily restricted to a (sometimes blackened) breast- and backplate, the cuirass, and a simple iron skull cap worn under the hat. By the later 18th century
Armour_in_the_18th_century
Soviet body armor
нагрудник, lit. 'Steel breastplate'), is a type of body armor similar to a cuirass developed by the Red Army in World War II. The native Cyrillic abbreviation
Stalnoi_Nagrudnik
Army of Philip II and Alexander the Great
the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC. Macedonian cavalry, wearing muscled cuirasses, became renowned in Greece during and after their involvement in the Peloponnesian
Ancient_Macedonian_army
Japanese armor
samurai class and their foot soldiers (ashigaru). The Tatami dō (a foldable cuirass) or the tatami katabira (an armoured jacket) were the main components of
Tatami_(Japanese_armour)
Cavalry with strong armor, horses, and weaponry
enclosed cuirass. In the latter half of the 17th century, most European lancers abandoned the use of armor aside from a helmet, and occasionally a cuirass. European
Heavy_cavalry
Pieces of plate armour
flexibility, that form an apron-like skirt in front. When worn with a cuirass, faulds are often paired with a similar defense for the rump called a culet
Faulds_(armour)
Military unit
Carabiniers-à-Cheval did not wear a cuirass. The decree of 24 December 1809 altered the uniform of the carabiniers: white costume, double steel cuirass (breastplate and
Mounted_Carabiniers_(France)
Armour made of overlapping scales, without a solid backing
both infantry and cavalry, are represented wearing cuirasses constructed of lamellae. These cuirasses reach from shoulder to waist, and in many instances
Lamellar_armour
Medical technology
Iron lung, also known as a tank ventilator, Drinker tank or Emerson tank; Cuirass ventilator, also known as a chest shell, turtle shell or tortoise shell;
Negative_pressure_ventilator
Ancient Greek suit of armour
Courbin discovered in a tomb a panoply of bronze armour, consisting of a cuirass and helmet, probably dating to the last quarter of the eighth century BCE
Argos_panoply
Roman armour
pluːmaːt̪a]; Latin for 'feathered cuirass'), also called the lorica hamata squamatque (Latin for 'hooked and scaled cuirass'), was a set of Roman body armor
Lorica_plumata
Species of fish
(Sciades herzbergii), also known as the flapnose sea catfish, the mud cuirass, or the gillbacker, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It was
Pemecou_sea_catfish
Byzantine piece of armour
klivanion or klibanion (Greek: κλιβάνιον) was a Byzantine style of lamellar cuirass made of metal plates (lamellae) sewn on a leather backing or with no backing
Klivanion
Polish heavy cavalry from the 16th to 18th centuries
1776. The hussar dress was ostentatious and comprised plated body armour (cuirass, spaulders, bevors, and arm bracers) adorned by gold ornaments, a burgonet
Polish_hussars
Type of thick leather coat
periods of time than the cuirass. The finest quality buff coats were expensive, often much more so than the munition armour cuirasses typically issued to common
Buff_coat
light. Bronze breastplate armor was also used, in forms such as a bell cuirass. Little other armor was worn, and fatal blows to unprotected areas (such
Ancient Greek military personal equipment
Ancient_Greek_military_personal_equipment
Wikimedia Commons. Kusari zukin (mail coif) Mengu (mask) Kabuto (helmet) Dō (cuirass) Kote (vambrace and lower pauldron) Han kote (gauntlet) Sode (roughly pauldron)
List of medieval armour components
List_of_medieval_armour_components
Species of fish
Cathorops spixii, the Madamango sea catfish, raspfin sea catfish or spring cuirass, is a species of catfish in the family Ariidae. It was described by Louis
Cathorops_spixii
Strong and soft type of leather
These were often worn in lieu of complete steel, either with or without a cuirass and gorget of metal. Modern buff leather, of which soldiers' cross belts
Buff_leather
Japanese combat helmet
Kabuto of gusoku (Tosei-gusoku) armor European-style cuirass, 16th - 17th century, Azuchi-Momoyama - Edo period, Tokyo National Museum
Kabuto
English style of plate armour
Museum of Art in New York, has a specially designed corset built into the cuirass to support the weight of the burly king's large stomach. This harness also
Greenwich_armour
Military unit
endured by officers, as well as the huge cost of belonging to the unit (the cuirasses, for example, were silverplated at a time when the precious metal was
Life_Guards_(Prussia)
Ancient Roman sculpture of Augustus
hypothesis is based on the fact that the central reliefs on the heroic cuirass depict the retrieval of Crassus' standards captured by the Parthians, an
Augustus_of_Prima_Porta
Coinage of Valerian and Gallienus, emperors of the Roman Empire
of Gallienus with radiate crown toward right, the bust with drapery and cuirass; CONCORDIA AVGG(ustorum), hands clasping in sign of agreement. 253/254
Coinage of Valerian and Gallienus
Coinage_of_Valerian_and_Gallienus
Armour worn to protect the thighs
cuisse meaning 'thigh'. While the skirt of a maille shirt or tassets of a cuirass could protect the upper legs from above, a thrust from below could avoid
Cuisses
Javanese term for war attire
Javanese texts. Its name comes from the Sanskrit kawaca which means armor, cuirass, a type of chain mail, any kind of cover, corset, jacket. Petrus Josephus
Kawaca
Part in medieval and Renaissance armour
Sometimes they were worn with a metal finish, while the top part of the cuirass was covered in material (often velvet), the difference in finish making
Plackart
15th- to 17th-century men's garment
16th centuries to facilitate the wearing of the brigandine, breastplate, cuirass, and plackart, which had to cut into the waist in order to shift their
Doublet_(clothing)
line became long and tightly fitting: bodices were cut as long, boned cuirass forms extending over the hips, or as one-piece princess-line garments with
1870s_in_Western_fashion
Russian Red Army units during WWII
(Russian: шисбр), and are occasionally referred to as "armoured infantry" or "cuirass infantry" (Russian: панцирная пехота). Sapper-engineering assault units
Assault_Engineering_Brigades
Roman god of the sky
generally, though not universally, agreed that Caelus is depicted on the cuirass of the Augustus of Prima Porta, at the very top above the four horses of
Caelus
Ancient Greek kingdom in the southern Balkans
reign of Alexander I of Macedon. Macedonian cavalry, wearing muscled cuirasses, became renowned in Greece during and after their involvement in the Peloponnesian
Macedonia_(ancient_kingdom)
Archaeological site in central Macedonia
coinage of the Antigonid kings of Macedon. The shield is flanked by two cuirasses (with helmets) and two swords hanging from nails. The burial chamber is
Tomb_of_Lyson_and_Kallikles
Topics referred to by the same term
the Latin name for a muscle cuirass Lorica plumata, a shirt of ribbed scales resembling feathers Lorica segmentata, a cuirass of metal plates Lorica squamata
Lorica
Plate armor used in Ancient Rome
culture. In Latin, the name lorica segmentata translates to "segmented cuirass". However, this name was not given to the armor by the Romans. Instead
Lorica_segmentata
1815 battle of the Waterloo campaign
deeply sunken main road and then routed. The blows of the sabres on the cuirasses sounded like braziers at work. — Lord Edward Somerset. Sir Walter Scott
Battle_of_Waterloo
Late Middle Ages European plate armour
which were mostly used in Gothic Armour, couters, vambraces, gauntlets, a cuirass (back and breastplate) with a fauld, tassets and a culet, a mail skirt
White_armour
1242–1502 Turkicized Mongol khanate
equipped his army in the Mongol fashion, his horsemen with Mongol-style cuirasses, and their mounts armoured with shoulder, chest, and head pieces. Michael
Golden_Horde
15th century European steel plate armour
increasingly common, eventually diminished itself into the early modern cuirass of the 18th and 19th centuries. Gothic armour was often combined with a
Gothic_plate_armour
Circular metal plate used on late-medieval armour
The first rondels appeared in the late 14th century, soon after rigid cuirasses made of breastplates and backplates had replaced the earlier coat of plates
Rondel_(armour)
Type of armor that protects the front of the torso
during an intertribal council on the Little Big Horn in 1909. Armour Cuirass Muscle cuirass Lance rest Linothorax Pteruges Gorget Walker, Paul F (2013). The
Breastplate
UK charity providing expertise on workplace health risks
with a bowl of Hygieia Azure the stems each entwined by a serpent Or. Supporters Two goats Or armed and unguled Azure each vested with a cuirass Proper.
British Occupational Hygiene Society
British_Occupational_Hygiene_Society
Painting by Ernest Meissonier
the painting "everything looks like it's made of steel... except the cuirasses." The critic Henry Houssaye noted that the painting was fictional, since
1807,_Friedland
Painting by Robert Walker
wearing a full suit of armour, although during the Civil War only the cuirass was usually worn. The work was likely produced the same year Cromwell sat
Portrait_of_Oliver_Cromwell
Medieval European open-faced military helmet
The gorget was often strapped to both the breast and backplate of the cuirass. In this late form the head was relieved of the entire weight of the helmet
Bascinet
Courtly entertainment with music and dance
Costume for a Knight, by Inigo Jones: the plumed helmet, the "heroic cuirass" in armour and other conventions were still employed for opera seria in the
Masque
Vieux Sequins et vieilles cuirasses (Old Sequins and Ancient Breastplates) is a 1913 piano composition by Erik Satie. One of his humoristic keyboard suites
Vieux Sequins et vieilles cuirasses
Vieux_Sequins_et_vieilles_cuirasses
English writer and poet (1865–1936)
who had held themselves in reserve, buckled on their dull and bronzed cuirasses and stood it out stiffly to the last blown leaf, till nothing remained
Rudyard_Kipling
German form of plate armour from the first half of 15th century
construction consisted of a grand-bascinet helm or a bicoque helmet, box-shaped cuirass, gauntlets with a long cuff and a rectangular cutout, and a plate skirt
Kasten-brust_armour
Sculpture by Gian Lorenzo Bernini and Girolamo Lucenti
Philip IV is depicted as a military leader in historical attire, wearing a cuirass, cloak, and boots. He holds a scepter in his right hand while resting his
Statue of King Philip IV of Spain (Bernini)
Statue_of_King_Philip_IV_of_Spain_(Bernini)
Winged horse in Chinese mythology
his mouth a scaly cuirass, with red lines on a green ground, ascended the altar, laid down the scheme, and went away. The cuirass was like a tortoise
Longma
Irish monastic protective prayer
lōrīca originally meant "armour" (body armor, in the sense of chainmail or cuirass). The idea underlying the name is probably derived from Ephesians 6:14
Lorica_(prayer)
Occitan lord of Alés and knight during the First Crusade
1067. The name “pilet” refers to a fur that the nobility wore over their cuirass and coats-of-arms. Raymond distinguished himself as a combatant during
Raymond_Pilet_d'Alès
Greek god of blacksmiths
Hephaestus sided with the Greeks and forged the armour of Achilles, the cuirass of Diomedes, and Agamemnon's staff of office, but Hephaestus was also worshipped
Hephaestus
Type of European helm
this type of helmet to be mounted with screws or rivets onto the wearer's cuirass, though this only allowed the wearer to look forward, rendering helmets
Frog-mouth_helm
Vowel split in English
path Word-final /-s/ alas, ass, bagasse, bass (fish), crass, crevasse, cuirass, demitasse, en masse, frass, gas, harass, kvass, lass, mass, morass, paillasse
Trap–bath_split
Medieval defensive jacket
armour survived into the English Civil War in England as a "poor man's cuirass" and as an item to be worn beneath the few remaining suits of full plate
Gambeson
Ruler of Merta (1507–1568)
courage. "At this time H.M.(Akbar) perceived that a person clothed in a cuirass known as the hazār mīkhī (thousand nails) which is a mark of chieftainship
Jaimal_Rathore
Land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece (479 BC)
battle. He claims that the Persians' iron cuirass armor was of better quality than the Greek bronze cuirass armor. Konijnendijk states that only some
Battle_of_Plataea
Tomb in Petra
blocks. The middle inset figure is dressed in a Graeco-Roman military style cuirass. There is one entrance to the tomb, which lies in the center of the façade
Tomb_of_the_Roman_Soldier
Archeological age, 3200–600 BC
Bronze cuirasses, Urnfield culture, France, 900 BC
Bronze_Age_Europe
Philistine giant in the Bible
Finkelstein's conclusion, King determines that "Goliath's bronze helmet, cuirass, greaves, long range bronze jav-elin, spear with socketed blade, shield-bearer
Goliath
Professional warrior class in Japan
January 2015. Absolon, Trevor. Samurai Armour: Volume I: The Japanese Cuirass (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017).[ISBN missing] Anderson, Patricia E. "Roles
Samurai
Type of Japanese chest armour
A haramaki cuirass, made of iron lamellar with leather lacing, 15th–16th century
Haramaki_(armour)
returned Oct 1944 HMT Cuckoo Nov 1939 Auxiliary patrol, returned Feb 1940 HMT Cuirass Sep 1939 Boom defence vessel, sold 1945 HMT Cumulus Sep 1939 Harbour service
List of requisitioned trawlers of the Royal Navy (WWII)
List_of_requisitioned_trawlers_of_the_Royal_Navy_(WWII)
Painting by Pieter de Hooch
takes a puff from a clay pipe, across the table, a bearded man wears a cuirass over a brown shirt, watching the serving woman drink beer from a pass-glass
A_Dutch_Courtyard
South African cloak
word, or else an adaptation of the Dutch kuras (Portuguese: couraça), a cuirass. In a vocabulary dated 1673 "karos" is described as a "corrupt Dutch word
Kaross
Infantry employed by the samurai class of feudal Japan
jingasa made from iron, copper, wood, paper, bamboo, or leather, dō (cuirasses), kabuto (helmets), tatami zukin (armored hoods), kote (armored sleeves)
Ashigaru
c. 1300–750 BC archaeological culture of Central Europe
(Clonbrinn, Co. Wexford). Bronze cuirasses are known since Bronze D (Čaka, grave II, Slovakia). Complete bronze cuirasses have been found in Saint Germain
Urnfield_culture
Mideastern Middle Age war-time events during the years 769–969
been paid, and was forced to ransom the rest by handing over a valuable cuirass and a hostage from the grandees of his court. Among the exchanged prisoners
Arab–Byzantine prisoner exchanges
Arab–Byzantine_prisoner_exchanges
Heavily armoured Roman cavalry
historian Ammianus Marcellinus: “...among these were scattered cavalry with cuirasses (cataphracti equites), whom they call clibanarii, masked, protected by
Equites_cataphractarii
Type of authority in ancient Rome
to that of a praetor wore a sash ritually knotted on the front of his cuirass. Furthermore, any man executing imperium within his sphere of influence
Imperium
Topics referred to by the same term
Thorax (arthropod anatomy) Thorax (θώραξ), the Ancient Greek term for cuirass/breastplate Linothorax, Ancient Greek armour composed of linen Thorakitai
Thorax_(disambiguation)
Collection of Latin glosses on the Vulgate Bible
*/ˈβɪtta/ OFr. vete Cat. veta Sp. beta Pt. fita It. vetta Ro. bată torax cuirass — brunia Frankish *brunnia. OFr. bronie Fr. broigne OOcc. bronha trabem
Reichenau_Glossary
Period of European global exploration
technologies and cultural practices, like the arquebus, European-style cuirasses, European ships, Christianity, decorative art, and language. After the
Age_of_Discovery
King of Macedon from 359 to 336 BC
Remains of the funeral pyre and banquet Gold Gorgon Head from Philip's cuirass (breastplate) The gilded silver diadem of Philip Ivory plaque depicting
Philip_II_of_Macedon
Ancient Greek city in Anatolia
of Celsus, consul in A.D. 92, and his son Aquila, consul in A.D. 110. A cuirass statue stood in the central niche of the upper storey. Its identification
Ephesus
1606 painting by Peter Paul Rubens
[citation needed] The red cruciform sword symbol on Giovanni Carlo Doria's cuirass identifies him as a member of the Spanish Order of Saint James of Compostela
Portrait of Giovanni Carlo Doria on Horseback
Portrait_of_Giovanni_Carlo_Doria_on_Horseback
Vatican City military force and papal bodyguard
the historical cuirasses was commissioned in 2012, from Waffen und Harnischschmiede Schmidberger in Molln, Upper Austria. The cuirasses are handmade, and
Swiss_Guard
Byzantine ivory leaf from an imperial diptych
chief, the role in which he is portrayed – under his cuirass he wears a short tunic and over the cuirass a cloak (paludamentum), of which a fold flies behind
Barberini_ivory
1588 speech by Queen Elizabeth I of England
helmet on a cushion; then came the Queen herself, in white with a silver cuirass and mounted on a grey gelding. She was flanked on horseback by her lieutenant
Speech to the Troops at Tilbury
Speech_to_the_Troops_at_Tilbury
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a.
Wearing a cuirass.
pl.
of Cuirass
n.
A cuirass or breastplate.
n.
A breastplate, cuirass, or corselet; especially, the breastplate worn by the ancient Greeks.
n.
A projection from the right side of the cuirass, serving to support the lance.
n.
A cuirass.
n.
A cuirass, originally of leather, afterward of plates of metal or horn sewed on linen or the like.
n.
An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.
n.
The breastplate taken by itself.
n.
A leather flap hanging from a cuirass.
a.
Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; -- said of certain fishes.
n.
A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
n. /
A cuirassier or cuirassiers; also, hardy veteran soldiers; -- applied specifically to Cromwell's cavalry.
n.
A soldier armed with a cuirass.
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