One of them, I mind, wore a rusty cuirass of chain armour, which must have been one of those sent out by the King in the first days of the dominion.

Have you a cuirass on, Concini? Concini.

We wear daggers, shirts of mail, and very often the whole cuirass under the cape.

The Good Knight, who in such danger never slept without his steel gauntlets and thigh-pieces, with his cuirass by his side, was soon armed, and mounted his horse, which was already saddled.

Once again he read it from end to end ere he crumpled the note in under his cuirass for future consideration.