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cuirassier|kwɪrəˈsɪə(r), kjʊə-|
In (6 coritser), 7 cuiraisier, -asseer, -azeer, curaseer, -asheer, -useer, -iazier, -(s)sier, coriassier, 8 curiasser, 9 cuirasseur, -sieur.
[a. F. cuirassier, f. cuirasse: introduced in 17th c., and applied to the heavy cavalry in the Civil Wars. Coritser for LG. koritzer (= early mod.G. kürisser), occurs 1551 as an alien word in a document abstracted by Strype.]
1. A horse soldier wearing a cuirass.
The proper name of a certain type of heavy cavalry in European armies. The name is not now used in the British army, though some of the regiments of Guards correspond in equipment.
[1551in Strype Eccl. Mem. II. 258 Sixteen horsemen and two coritsers.] 1625Markham Souldiers Accid. 41 The first and principall Troope of horsemen..are now called Cuirassiers or Pistolliers. 1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 2 Armed Cap-a-pe like a Curiazier in warr. 1671Milton P.R. iii. 328 Cuirassiers all in steel for standing fight. 1702W. J. Bruyn's Voy. Levant ii. 6 Many Troopers, Curiassers, armed Switz. 1801Sporting Mag. XVII. 135 Exercising his regiment of cuirasseurs. 1824Macaulay Naseby, Our cuirassiers have burst on the ranks of the accurst. 1874Green Short Hist. x. 811 The victorious horsemen were crushed in their turn by the French cuirassiers.
b. fig. and transf.
1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. Ep. Ded., The Fleas that are Curasheers, and their back stiffe with bristles. 1727Pope & Arbuthnot Art of Sinking 108 Call an army of angels, angelic cuirassiers.
¶2. (erron.) A cuirass. Obs.
1622Peacham Compl. Gent. (1661) 162 His Curuseers to be of gold, his robe blew and silver, his buskins of gold. Ibid. 165 The Roman Emperours habit was this: their curuseers yellow embroidered with silver. |