Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Costume (hierarchy name)
5. costume (mode of fashion)
6. [costume by function]
7. protective wear
8. armor
9. [armor by form]
10. body armor
11. [body armor for torso]

Narrower term/s

• waistcoat cuirasses
• bell corslets
• loricae[+]
  • loricae segmentatae
  • loricae squamatae
• animes (cuirasses)
• ichcahuipilli (quilted cotton body armor)

Anotations

Scope note:

Armor protecting the front and back of the torso, variously made throughout their history of layers of linen or leather, metal scales, lames, or plates, or combinations of leather and metal.