Definition of "cuirassed" []

• Wearing a cuirass. (adjective)
• Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass; said of certain fishes. (adjective)

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• "In last year's Big Battalion Game, the French had more cuirassiers than the Prussians and so I vowed on a stack of Bibles that I would never be out-cuirassed again."
• "Its exquisitely decorated sandal clearly identifies the person represented as an emperor shown in the "cuirassed type," wearing a military uniform."
• "I stumbled, nearly fell, over a brown-faced, leather-cuirassed body that lay half over, legs barring the threshold."