Kyrisser

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German[edit]

Noun[edit]

Kyrisser

  1. cuirassier
    • 1868, Hermann Meynert, Geschichte des Kriegswesens und der Heerverfassungen in Europa, Volume 2, Beck, page 31:
      Der Hauptmann eines jeden Fähnleins erhielt monatlich für seine Person fünfzig Gulden und auf jeden der Kyrisser und Einspännigen, so lange sie in des Kaisers Erblanden lagen, vier Gulden hungarisch, wenn sie aber anderswo im Reiche verwendet würden, zehn Gulden rheinisch.
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    • 1876, Karl Friedrich, Prince of Prussia; translated by Edmund Hill Wickham, The Influence of Firearms Upon Tactics: Historical and Critical Investigations by an Officer of Superior Rank, H.S. King & Company, page 9
      They were likewise reckoned according to the number of the kyrissers, as the spearman were called before the time of Maximilian; before this, according to the number of helmets or spears.
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