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cuirass
A cuirass (; (フランス語:cuirasse), (ラテン語:coriaceus)) is a piece of armour, formed of a single or multiple pieces of metal or other rigid material which covers the front of the torso. In a suit of armour, the cuirass was generally connected to a back piece. ''Cuirass'' could also refer to the complete torso-protecting armour.
==Description==
In Hellenistic and Roman times, the musculature of the male torso was idealized in the form of the muscle cuirass〔Charlotte R. Long, ''The Twelve Gods of Greece and Rome'' (Brill, 1987), p. 184; Elfriede R. Knauer, "''Knemides'' in the East. Some Observations on the Impact of Greek Body Armour on 'Barbarian' Tribes," in ''Nomodeiktes: Greek Studies in Honor of Martin Ostwald'' (University of Michigan Press, 1993), pp. 238–239.〕 or "heroic cuirass" (in French the ''cuirasse esthétique'')〔Kenneth Clark remarks on this familiar convention in ''The Nude: A Study in Ideal Form'' 1956:67.〕 sometimes further embellished with symbolic representation in relief, familiar in the Augustus of Prima Porta and other heroic representations in official Roman sculpture. As parts of the actual military equipment of classic antiquity, cuirasses and corsets of bronze, iron, or some other rigid substance were used. Secondary protection for the breast was worn in earlier times by men-at-arms in addition to mail hauberks and reinforced coats. It was not until the 14th century that the plate armour became an established part of medieval armour.
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