cuirie
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English quyrre, now respelled according to or reborrowed from its source, Old French cuirie (French cuirie).
Noun[edit]
cuirie (plural cuiries)
- An item of leather body armor, a forerunner to the cuirass; a cuirass.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuirie.
Related terms[edit]
Old French[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Ultimately from Latin corium (“skin, hence, hide of an animal”).
Noun[edit]
cuirie oblique singular, f (oblique plural cuiries, nominative singular cuirie, nominative plural cuiries)
Descendants[edit]
- → Middle English: quyrre
References[edit]
- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (cuirie)
- coreie on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub