cuirass
/kwɪˈɹæs/
cuirass noun: a piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
Noun
cuirass (plural cuirasses)
- A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
- The cuirass covered the body before and behind, it consisted of two parts, a breast and back piece of iron, fastened together by means of straps and buckles, or other contrivances. They were originally as the name imports, made of leather, but afterwards of metal, both brass and iron.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 19
- The breastplate taken by itself.
- Lady Orkney's history, to whose house we are going, is a curious one. As Miss Elizabeth Villiers, by her charms she pierced the cuirass that enveloped the well-disciplined heart of William III.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, pages 43–44
Verb
cuirass (third-person singular simple present cuirasses, present participle cuirassing, simple past and past participle cuirassed)
- To cover with defensive armor; to armor-plate.
cuirass meaning in Tamil, Sanskrit and Persian
cuirass in Tamil
- மார்புக்கவசம், எற்புத்தகட்டுக்கச்சு, உடற்கவசம், பெண்டிர் கையற்ற உட்சட்டை, உடற்கவசமளி
cuirass in Sanskrit
- a cuirass
- चोलक colaka
cuirass in Persian
- piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
- بگتر begtar, جوشن jowšan, چلته čelte
Forms of cuirass
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | cuirasses |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | cuirasses |
| present participle | cuirassing |
| past participle | cuirassed |
| past | cuirassed |
Origin of cuirass
First use appears c. 1464. From Middle English curasse, curesse, from Old French cuirace, spelling influenced by modern French cuirasse.
Words that rhyme with cuirass
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- bagasse
- Corinthian brass
- en masse
- frass
- Lefkas
- madras
- morass
- Pendergrass
- volte-face
- wass
- world-class
- adder's grass
- alas
- asse
- bamboo grass
- chasse
- das
- dass
- dogtooth grass
- flyaway grass
- hey pass
- Inner Brass
- khalass
- khalassed
- lac
- lift pass
- low mass
- Neptune grass
- outclass
- Outer Brass
- Ratass
- rockmass
- saas
- shass
- tass
- tasse
- thass
- wassed
- wrasse
Questions about cuirass
- What does cuirass mean?
- Cuirass means a piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
- What is cuirass in Tamil?
- Cuirass in Tamil is மார்புக்கவசம், எற்புத்தகட்டுக்கச்சு, உடற்கவசம். See Cuirass meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is cuirass?
- Cuirass can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce cuirass?
- Cuirass is pronounced /kwɪˈɹæs/.
- What is the plural of cuirass?
- The plural of cuirass is cuirasses.
Words near cuirass in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: cuirass (page history and authors); cuirass (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); चोलक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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