資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Cuirass \Cui*rass"\ (kw[-e]*r[.a]s", or kw[=e]"r[a^]s; 277), n.;
   pl. {Cuirasses}(-[e^]z). [F. cuirasse, orig., a breastplate
   of leather, for OF. cuir['e]e, cuirie influenced by It.
   corazza, or Sp. coraza, fr. an assumed LL. coriacea, fr. L.
   coriaceus, adj., of leather, fr. corium leather, hide; akin
   to Gr. cho`rion intestinal membrane, OSlav. skora hide, Lith.
   skura hide, leather. Cf. {Coriaceous}.]
   1.
      (a) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the
          neck to the girdle.
      (b) The breastplate taken by itself.

   Note: The cuirass covered the body before and behind. It
         consisted of two parts, a breast- and backpiece of iron
         fastened together by means of straps and buckles or
         other like contrivances. It was originally, as the name
         imports, made of leather, but afterward of metal.
         --Grose.

   2. (Zo["o]l) An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a
      cuirass.