cuirboille
English
Noun
cuirboille (uncountable)
- Alternative form of cuir bouilli
- 2005 09, Jean Rabe, The Finest Creation, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 24:
- It was wearing cuirboille barding, a heavy leather painted with beeswax, and it had a crinet of fluted plates around its neck with a gap for its mane to hang free. The Prince caught Meven staring at the animal.
- 2012 September 27, Nikki Dorakis, The Dread Wolf: Book 2 : The Hand of Justice, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 403:
- “For that bronze-grafted cuirboille is not what you should be wearing either. This is how I fought alongside my friends when we battled in Illios and Mederlana. I fought taking the same risks as my brothers-in-arms.
Middle English
Alternative forms
Further reading
- 2013 December 16, Alexandra Barratt, Women's Writing in Middle English: An Annotated Anthology, Routledge, →ISBN, page 141:
- For afoore the pepill armed them not but with cuirboille. And for the grete wisedome that was in this ladi, thei called here a goddes. And because that Hector couthe sette armure wel a-werke and that it was his ryghte crafte, […]
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