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curat

/ˈkjʊəɹət/

curat noun: a cuirass or breastplate. Also the obsolete spelling of curate.

Noun

curat (plural curats)

  1. (obsolete) A cuirass or breastplate.
    • The wicked shaft, guyded through th'ayrie wyde
      By some bad spirit that it to mischiefe bore,
      Stayd not, till through his curat it did glyde1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Also used as

curat is also the obsolete spelling of curate.

Forms of curat

pluralcurats

Questions about curat

What does curat mean?
Curat means a cuirass or breastplate.
What part of speech is curat?
Curat is a noun.
How do you pronounce curat?
Curat is pronounced /ˈkjʊəɹət/.
What is the plural of curat?
The plural of curat is curats.

Words near curat in the dictionary

  1. curarizes
  2. curarizing
  3. Curas
  4. curassow
  5. curassows
  6. curat
  7. curatability
  8. curatable
  9. curatage
  10. curatages
  11. curate

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