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Bronze-age abs you could buy, so even your physique was technically armor
means A piece of armor covering the torso, originally a breastplate and backplate worn together to protect the chest and back.
from From French cuirasse, which traces back to the Latin coriaceus, 'made of leather' — itself from corium, 'hide' or 'skin.' The earliest such body-armor was indeed leather, so the word remembers its humble animal-hide roots even after smiths swapped in gleaming bronze and steel; corium is also a distant cousin of words like 'excoriate,' which literally means to strip off the skin.
- fake muscles
- Greek versions sculpted idealized torsos onto the metal
- name origin
- From Latin corium, meaning leather hide
- still serving
- Worn by ceremonial cavalry guards even today
- breast and back
- Properly it's two plates, not just the front
- medical cousin
- Iron lung's shell borrowed the same name
henry viii's armor — royal armor made at the royal workshops, greenwich, england, circa 1544, weighs 90 pounds
maximilian armor — fluted steel cuirass style from holy roman empire, 1500s-1600s, named after emperor maximilian i