corcelet

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noun Armor for the body, as, the body breastplate and backpiece taken together.
noun Also used for the entire suit of the day, including breastplate and backpiece, tasset and headpiece.

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Fabricius describes the thorax (truncated in front and rounded behind) as having the anterior margin rufous in the middle, it being wholly of a deep shining black, and as Olivier (l.c.) remarks, the neck or narrowed collar (qui joint la tete au corcelet) is rufous yellow as is the squareish transverse head with a black spot on the crown.

Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 George Grey 1855
On en troiive dont le defTirs du corcelet n*eft pas noir entiereaient, mais qui ont au haut et au bas des taches fafrannees faites en lofange et qui fc teuchent par leiirs polntes dans le milieu du corcelet; Celles la fönt les femelles dans les quelles on voit diftinctement la petite feie de raiguillon.

Favnae insectorvm Germanicae initia, oder, Deutschlands Insecten Sturm, Jakob, 1771-1848, ill 1796