The heavy boots of the cuirassier, the white leather apron of the sapeur, were drying along the marble benches of the terrace. |
If he seemed such in the idle hours, on parade he was the beau ideal of a cuirassier. |
I don't say that in a charge, however well drilled, they could stand against one of our cuirassier regiments. |
The cuirassier, being heavier, and mounted on a slower horse, was distanced. |
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. |
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. |