cuirboille

English

Noun

cuirboille (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of cuir bouilli
   • 2005 09, Jean Rabe, The Finest Creation, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 24:

     It was wearing cuirboille barding, a heavy leather painted with beeswax, and it had a crinet of fluted plates around its neck with a gap for its mane to hang free. The Prince caught Meven staring at the animal.

   • 2012 September 27, Nikki Dorakis, The Dread Wolf: Book 2 : The Hand of Justice, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 403:

     “For that bronze-grafted cuirboille is not what you should be wearing either. This is how I fought alongside my friends when we battled in Illios and Mederlana. I fought taking the same risks as my brothers-in-arms.

Middle English

Noun

cuirboille (uncountable)

1. cuir bouilli

Alternative forms

• quirboilly

Further reading

• 2013 December 16, Alexandra Barratt, Women's Writing in Middle English: An Annotated Anthology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:

  For afoore the pepill armed them not but with cuirboille. And for the grete wisedome that was in this ladi, thei called here a goddes. And because that Hector couthe sette armure wel a-werke and that it was his ryghte crafte, […]