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What is a cuirassier?

What is a cuirassier? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) A cavalry soldier equipped with a cuirass (armor).
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The heavy boots of the cuirassier, the white leather apron of the sapeur, were drying along the marble benches of the terrace.
Glancing back from time to time, he allowed the cuirassier major to come near enough to make conversation possible.
The cuirassier, being heavier, and mounted on a slower horse, was distanced.
Cromwell holds a baton of authority and wears a full suit of black plate cuirassier armor of a style normally associated with the early sixteenth century.
I don't say that in a charge, however well drilled, they could stand against one of our cuirassier regiments.
By 1700, armor was largely out of use, but a specialist class of heavy cavalry, the cuirassier, continued to wear torso armor and a helmet.

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