Corslet

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A corslet is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "a piece of defensive

In the 10th and 11th century, the depiction of some Byzantine troops wearing a metallic corselet lamellar armour (besides the lorikion scale armour that was widely used by the Stratioti) is shown in the Skylitzes and Madrid Skylitzes chronicles and of the Menologion of Basil II. There were also seen being used by the imperial guardsmen in Constantinople. The armor itself lasted until the fall of Constantinople, as Constantinos Palaiologos himself is recorded as wearing one during the fall.

The word "corslet" was adopted as a so-called "occupational

According to Webster's Third New International Dictionary, corslet also refers to a soldier equipped with a corslet.

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