Look up: Cuirassier

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   cuirassier
   [n] - a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass
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   Cuirassier
   French armoured heavy cavalry. The cuirass being a breastplate.
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   Cuirassier
   Cui`ras·sier' noun [ French cuirassier . See Curass .] A soldier armed with a cuirass. Milton.
   Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/C/200
   
   
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   Cuirassier
   Cui`ras·sier' noun (Mil.) In modern armies, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.
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   cuirassier
   noun a cavalryman equipped with a cuirass
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   Cuirassier
   `Cuirassiers` were mounted cavalry soldiers equipped with armour and firearms, first appearing in late 15th-century Europe. They were the successors of the medieval armoured knights. The term is derived from cuirass, the breastplate armour which they wore. The first cuirassiers did not appear very different from the medieval knights; they wore (almost) full-body armour, and the only items of equipment which differentiated them from knights were ...
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   Cuirassier
   • (n.) A soldier armed with a cuirass. • (n.) In modern armies, a soldier of the heaviest cavalry, wearing a cuirass only when in full dress.
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