Citations:cuirie

English citations of cuirie

• 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 .