CUIRASSIER • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Cuirassier

... looks and piled arms contrasting strangely enough with the great porcelain vases of flowering plants that still decorated the rich "plateau." Chakos, helmets, and great coats were hung upon the orange trees. The heavy boots of the cuirassier, the white leather apron of the "sapeur," were drying along the marble benches of the terrace. The richly traceried veining of gilt iron-work, which separated the court from the garden, was actually covered with ...

— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, September, 1850 • Various