[f. prec. sb.] trans. To cover or protect with, or as with a cuirass; to furnish (a ship) with armor-plating.
1863. G. T. Lowth, Wand. West. France, 325–6. There were two frigates on the stocks, one of iron and the other of wood, the latter to be cuirassed.
1880. Browning, Dram. Idylls, Clive, 50. His scalemail’s warty iron cuirasses a crocodile.
1881. Daily News, 10 March, 5/1. Black silk dresses are cuirassed with an armour of jet.
