A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle. / The breastplate taken by itself.

(transitive) To cover with defensive armor; to armor-plate.

plural of cuirass / plural of cuirasse

(pedology) The armour-like crust that forms upon the exposure of a lateritic soil profile. / Alternative form of cuirass (“breasplate”)

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

plural of cuirassement

(pedology) The process in which cuirasse is formed.

present participle of cuirass