kuriseen.
? Corrupt form of cuirassier n.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > man wearing armour > [noun]
helma1400
knight caligate1562
iron man1596
corslet1598
corsleteer1609
corslet-man1611
cuirassier1625
kurisee1649
cataphract1671
hoplomachist1793
1649 O. Cromwell Let. 19 Dec. in Writings & Speeches (1939) (modernized text) II. 178 The horse,..took three-hundred-and-fifty prisoners, amongst which,..the renegado Wogan, with twenty-four of Ormond's kurisees.
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