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Definition: Cuirassier |
CuirassierNoun1. A cavalryman equipped with a cuirass. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cuirassier" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1862. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Combatant | Horse and foot; horse soldier; cavalry, horse, artillery, horse artillery, light horse, voltigeur, uhlan,mounted rifles, dragoon, hussar; light dragoon, heavy dragoon; heavy; cuirassier; Foot Guards, Horse Guards. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | A German Cuirassier Regiment (1901) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The sabre of a cuirassier, striking down the pibroch and the arm which bore it, caused the strain to cease by killing the player. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cuirassier | 4 |
cuirassier napoleonic uniform | 2 |
cuirassier helmet | 2 |
cuirassier sabre | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cuirassier"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لباس الدرع, الفارس الدارع. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | конник с ризница, кирасир. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | kyrysník. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | cuirassement, cuirasse (cuirass). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | kürassier. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | vértes katona. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uirassiercay couraceiro. (various references) кирасир. (various references) oklopnik (armadillo). (various references) coracero. (various references) kyrassiär. (various references) zırhlı süvari. (various references) кірасир. (various references) kỵ binh mặc giáp. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cuirassier": cuirassiers. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-r-r-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: cruisers, scurries. | |
-3 letters: arcuses, arrises, assurer, carries, causers, cesuras, crasser, cruiser, cruises, cuirass, curares, curaris, curries, cursers, raisers, rasures, saucers, saucier, sauries, scarers, scarier, sierras, sucrase. | |
-4 letters: airers, airier, arises, assure, carers, caress, caries, carses, causer, causes, cerias, cesura, cirrus, crases, crasis, criers, crises, crisis, crissa, cruise, cruses, cuisse, curare, curari, curers, curiae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-r-r-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: cuirassiers. | |
+2 letters: circularises, squirarchies, surrealistic. | |
+3 letters: squirearchies. | |
+4 letters: particularises, picornaviruses, supercriminals. | |
+5 letters: cruciverbalists, ultraprecisions. | |
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