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Meanings of corslet in English

Spanish
coselete
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Half armor worn by heavy infantry, especially from the early 16th to the mid-17th century in Europe.

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Examples for "corselet"
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There remains only the joint between the corselet and the abdomen.
More Hunting Wasps
2
Him whom he strikes with lance or sword, neither corselet nor shield protects.
Cliges: A Romance
3
A gold-chased corselet, perhaps, to replace that battered old turtle shell of yours?
Hidden Warrior
4
Pronounce: therefore; franchise; wily; Sachem, pumpkin; matrons; corselet; Massasoit; granaried.
The Elson Readers, Book 5
5
It lay directly in her path-thetarge, the corselet, the helm, the pierced breastplate.
The Prose Marmion: A Tale of the Scottish Border
Usage of corslet in English
1
The clinquant corslet of the Swiss girl just survives at bals costumés.
The Works of Max Beerbohm
2
As regards armour, controversy is waged over the shield, corslet, and bronze greaves.
Homer and His Age
3
His weapons, lance, scimitar, and corslet of steel are dwelt upon with enthusiasm.
Moorish Literature / Comprising Romantic Ballads, Tales of the B...
4
The helm was removed, the surcoat was stripped, and the steel corslet beneath it.
The Path of the King
5
The silver corslet shimmered before his eyes like the light upon a rippling sea.
The lord of the rings
6
Yet occasionally the corslet saves a man when the spear has gone through the shield.
Homer and His Age
7
The spear of Idomeneus pierces another feeble corslet over the victim's belly (XIII.
Homer and His Age
8
The dying man struck him on the corslet, but
Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days
9
In Homer the shield is of leather, plated with bronze, and of bronze is the corslet.
Homer and His Age
10
The son of Priam hit the breastplate of Menelaus's corslet, but the arrow glanced from off it.
The Iliad
11
But an arrow which pierced his corslet brought him to the ground, fainting with loss of blood.
A Smaller History of Greece: from the Earliest Times to the Roma...
12
But about a corslet he never thinks.
Homer and His Age
13
The use of the aspis in Homer, therefore, throws no suspicion on the concomitant use of the corslet.
Homer and His Age
14
Ivanhoe, as thou well knowest, is unable to bear his corslet, and Richard is in a foreign prison.
The Junior Classics, Volume 5: Stories that never grow old
15
It is quite a surprise when a corslet does for once avail to turn an arrow (XIII.
Homer and His Age
16
Perhaps, too, some warlike captain, dressed in his buff-coat, with a corslet beneath it, accompanied the governor and counsellors.
True Stories of History and Biography
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coselete
Corslet through the time