corselet

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.