2013 February 19, Francis M. Kelly, Randolph Schwabe, A Short History of Costume & Armour: Two Volumes Bound as One, Courier Corporation, →ISBN:
We also hear of a leathern body-garment known as a CUIRIE, which may have been of CUIRBOULY (an exceedingly tough preparation of boiled leather), which seems fairly early to have been, in part at least, reinforced with plates of metal.
1858, The Archaeological Journal, page 356:
Some terms of rare occurrence will be noticed among the armour and With the pairs of plates , namely the breast and back plates , are enumerated a cuirie , the leathern prototype of the cuirass , and two pairs lameriorum , probably a[…]
2020 November 26, Christopher Gravett, The Medieval Knight, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 148:
KNIGHT, c.1290 By the late 13th century, many knights were wearing a coat of plates, or occasionally even a cuirie, beneath their surcoat but over their mail coat. This figure is of a knight of the Hastings family.
1978, Ian Heath, Armies of Feudal Europe 1066-1300, Lulu.com, →ISBN, page 152:
... is fairly certainly a cuirie or curie, a term which first appears in Wace's 'Roman de Rou' of c.1160–74, clearly deriving its name from cuir (leather). Initially at least it appears to have been a leather breastplate,[…]
2007, David Nicolle, Crusader Warfare:
This is normally interpreted as an early reference to iron splints or plates , perhaps forming an addition to an ordinary leather cuirie.498 Around 1230 a French romance mentioned a cuirie bonne ... largement ferrée , a ' good cuirie[…]
2004 April 22, Andrea Hopkins, A Chronicle History of Knights, →ISBN:
The padded gambeson is now reinforced with leather , a cuirie ( or cuir bouilli if the leather had been hardened by boiling ) – and the legs are nom protected by the addition of quilted cuisses on the thighs and the first sign of plate[…]
1963, Sean Morrison, Armor, Ty Crowell Company:
The armor for the joust of peace was made of leather : a cuirie , armplates , and spaudlers . There was a special helm . It was large and round and thickly padded . It had a faceguard of leather and metal strips woven together .
