cui.rass
n.（名词）
A piece of armor for protecting the breast and back.上半身铠甲：用来保护胸部和背部的那块铠甲The breastplate alone.胸甲A defense or protection:防卫，保护：例句：.A carefully primped irony, that cuirass of art in the early Eighties, is necessary—a distance so affected as to constitute a hopeless impediment to feeling.(Robert Hughes).8世纪早期艺术的保护物——细心整饰的反语，是必需的——这一距离是如此的不自然以致于造成了对感觉的彻底失望的阻碍.(罗伯特·休斯)
Zoology A protective covering of bony plates or scales.【动物学】 护身甲壳：保护骨盘或介壳的覆盖层v.tr.（及物动词）cui.rassed,cui.rass.ing,cui.rass.es To protect with a cuirass.用护胸甲保护
来源：Middle English curas 中古英语 curas from Old French cuirace 源自 古法语 cuirace probably alteration influenced by Old French cuir [leather] 可能为 受 古法语 cuir的影响 [皮革] of Old Provenôal coirassa 古普罗旺斯语 coirassa的变化 from Late Latin cori3cea (vestis) [leather (garment)] [feminine of] cori3ceus 源自 后期拉丁语 cori3cea (vestis) [皮革（衣服）] [] cori3ceus的阴性词 from Latin corium [hide] * see sker- 源自 拉丁语 corium [隐藏] *参见 sker-
