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noun
An item of leather body armor, a forerunner to the cuirass; a cuirass.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English quyrre, now respelled according to or reborrowed from its source, Old French cuirie (French cuirie).
