Corselets [noun]

Equipped almost wholly as a soldier, he wore a jacket of iron mail and a corselet of steel.

Sergius' head-piece was gone, but he glanced at his own corselet and then at Decius.

Garrard, in his Art of Warre , distinctly says, The fore part of a corselet and a head peece and tasses is the almayne rivet.

Should any one entertain so petty a thought, I advise him to open the articulation of the corselet, behind the first pair of legs.

A black corselet with shoulder pieces, and a feathered steel cap raised Basterga's huge stature almost to the gigantic.

The second corselet given by Amasis to the Lacædemonians was worked in gold and colours, with animals and other decorations.

He got his harness off—unbuckled and took off the great bronze corselet, in which he lay dead in another cave.

She picked up his corselet and buckled it on him, making him hold up his arms and kneel while she slipped it over his head.

But her bosom might have been encased in an iron corselet for all the tenderness it conveyed.

I will put on my head piece and corselet one day, and you shall hew at me, allowing me my broadsword to parry and pay back?