cuirie

From Middle English quyrre, now respelled according to or reborrowed from its source, Old French cuirie (French cuirie).

cuirie (plural cuiries)

1. An item of leather body armor, a forerunner to the cuirass; a cuirass.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:cuirie.

• cuir bouilli, cuirass

• coree, coreie, curie, cuiree, cuiriee, curee, curiee, quereie

Ultimately from Latin corium (“skin, hence, hide of an animal”).

cuirie oblique singular, f (oblique plural cuiries, nominative singular cuirie, nominative plural cuiries)

1. leather (hide of an animal used as a fabric)
2. leather strap

• → Middle English: quyrre

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (cuirie)
• coreie on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub