Cuirass

Definition: Cuirass

Cuirass

Noun

1. Medieval body armor that covers the chest and back.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "cuirass" was first used: 1464. (references)

Literature

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Defense

Bulletproof vest, armored vest, buffer, corner stone, fender, apron, mask, gauntlet, thimble, carapace, armor, shield, buckler, aegis, breastplate, backplate, cowcatcher, face guard, scutum, cuirass, habergeon, mail, coat of mail, brigandine, hauberk, lorication, helmet, helm, bassinet, salade, heaume, morion, murrion, armet, cabaset, vizor, casquetel, siege cap, headpiece, casque, pickelhaube, vambrace, shako; (dress).

Crosswords: Cuirass

French (armors, armour, tank).

Books

• Cuirass Tomb and Other Finds at Dendra, Part 2: Excavations in the Cemeteries, the Lower Town and the Citadel (reference)

• The Cuirass tomb and other finds at Dendra (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

He had on his cuirass the silver cross of the Legion of Honour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

mburojë (Buckler, bulwark, defence, mantelet, mantlet, shield), gjoksore (corselet, gorget, ring-mail). (various references)

Arabic 

‏درع (aegis, armature, armor, armor plate, armored, armour, armour plate, armoured, corset, hauberk, mail, shield). (various references)

Bulgarian 

ризница (hauberk, mail, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, sacristy), кираса, броня (aegis, armature, armor plate, armour, armour plate, bumper, corselet, dashboard, fender, mail, plate armor, plate armour, ring-mail, shell, splash-board, test). (various references)

Czech

kyrys. (various references)

Danish

kyrads-respirator (cabinet, cuirass respirator, iron lung, tank), jernlunge (cabinet, cuirass respirator, iron lung, siderosis, siderotic pneumoconiosis, tank). (various references)

Dutch

stalen long (cabinet, cuirass respirator, iron lung, tank), respirator van Drinker (cabinet, cuirass respirator, iron lung, tank), kunstlong (cabinet, cuirass respirator, iron lung, tank), ijzeren long (cabinet, cuirass respirator, iron lung, tank). (various references)

French

cuirasse (cuirassier). (various references)

German

kürass. (various references)

Greek 

θώρακασ (breastplate, chest, corselet, mail, thorax), θώραξ οπλίτου. (various references)

Hungarian

páncél (Armor, armour, armour-plating, carapace, crust, mail, shell). (various references)

Italian

corazza (Armor, armors, armour, carapace, shell, tank). (various references)

Manx

luiragh. (various references)

Pig Latin

uirasscay

Portuguese

couraça (armature, armor, armour, armour plate, breastplate, lorica, plating, shell). (various references)

Romanian

chiurasã (mail). (various references)

Russian 

кираса. (various references)

Scottish

gòrsaid (a cuirass). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

oklop (armature, armor, armor plate, armour, armour plate, corslet, mail, suit of armor). (various references)

Spanish

coraza (Armor, armour, breastplate). (various references)

Swedish

pansar (Armor, armour, carapace, mail, plate armour). (various references)

Turkish

zırh (armature, Armor, armour, breastplate, coat of mail, corselet, edging, harness, mail, sheathing, sheeting, shield), solunum aygıtı, göğüs zırhı (pectoral). (various references)

Ukrainian

кіраса (thorax), лати, броня (armature, armour, mail). (various references)

Welsh

llurig (coat of mail). (various references)

corium. (various references)

coriacea vestis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "cuirass": cuirassed, cuirasses, cuirassier, cuirassiers, cuirassing. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Cuirass" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ciass, Ciorascu, Coiruisk, Coriads, cuirsas, curaiss, curias, Kuirata. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: crasis, crissa, scaurs.

-2 letters: arcus, arsis, ascus, auric, auris, casus, crass, curia, risus, saris, scars, scaur, suras.

-3 letters: airs, arcs, asci, cars, cris, crus, curs, cuss, rias, sacs, sari, scar, sics, sirs, sris, sura, uric, ursa.

-4 letters: air, ais, arc, ars, ass, car, cis, cur, ras, ria, sac, sau, sic, sir, sis, sri.

-5 letters: ai.

+1 letter: scarious.

+2 letters: anacrusis, aruspices, casuistry, causeries, cuirassed, cuirasses, narcissus, ossicular, rusticals, subvicars, suricates.

+3 letters: carburises, casuarinas, crassitude, cuirassier, cuirassing, eucharises, haruspices, insurances, justiciars, muscarines, ocularists, pushchairs, rusticates, secularise, secularism, secularist, simulacres, subarctics, suctorians, surceasing, surfacings, tracksuits.

+4 letters: acquisitors, casuistries, commissural, crassitudes, cuirassiers, curtainless, cystinurias, discourages, glycosurias, luciferases, manicurists, manuscripts, narcissuses, pasticheurs, picaresques, raunchiness, recusancies, requiescats, resuscitate, rusticators, sanctuaries, saurischian, scoriaceous, secularised, secularises, secularisms, secularists, secularizes, simulacrums, supremacies, supremacist, surrogacies, survivances, ultrabasics, ultrasonics.