cuirass
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thumb|Cuirass worn by a Carabiniers-à-Cheval|Carabinier-à-Cheval
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- body armor
- Part of
- body armor
- Image
- Cuirass MET DP-12882-038.jpg
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- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- Commons category
- Cuirasses
- time period
- early modern period
- exact match
- wordnet-rdf.princeton.edu/wn30/03146219-n
- different from
- Doradidae
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- History
- Japanese cuirass
- See also
- References
- Sources
thumb|Cuirass worn by a Carabiniers-à-Cheval|Carabinier-à-Cheval
A cuirass ( ; ; ) is a piece of armour that covers the torso, formed of one or more pieces of metal or other rigid material.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “cuirass” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.