Usually means: Armor covering torso and back.
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General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuirass: Merriam-Webster
  2. cuirass: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cuirass: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cuirass: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cuirass: Vocabulary.com
  6. cuirass: Wordnik
  7. cuirass: Wiktionary
  8. cuirass: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cuirass: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. cuirass: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. cuirass: Dictionary.com
  12. cuirass: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Cuirass: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Cuirass: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. cuirass: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. cuirass: Rhymezone
  17. Cuirass: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. cuirass: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Cuirass: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. cuirass: FreeDictionary.org
  21. cuirass: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. cuirass: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cuirass: Legal dictionary

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuirass: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. cuirass: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Arms and Armour (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cuirass: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Cuirass: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Dictionary of Corset-related Words and Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See cuirassed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (cuirass)

noun:  A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.
noun:  The breastplate taken by itself.
verb:  (transitive) To cover with defensive armor; to armor-plate.

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