cuirie

English

Etymology

From Middle English quyrre, now respelled according to or reborrowed from its source, Old French cuirie (French cuirie).

Noun

cuirie (plural cuiries)

1. An item of leather body armor, a forerunner to the cuirass; a cuirass.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuirie.

Related terms

• cuir bouilli, cuirass

Old French

Alternative forms

• coree, coreie, curie, cuiree, cuiriee, curee, curiee, quereie

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin corium (“skin, hence, hide of an animal”).

Noun

cuirie oblique singular, f (oblique plural cuiries, nominative singular cuirie, nominative plural cuiries)

1. leather (hide of an animal used as a fabric)
2. leather strap

Descendants

• → Middle English: quyrre

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cuirie)
• coreie on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub