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noun (plural: corslets)
- Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together.
- Quotations
- 1786: He is able to pierce a corslet with his eye, talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery. — William Shakespeare, Coriolanus, Act V, Scene IV, line 20.
- Also used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.
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