Corium

Leather body-armor, formed of over-lapping leaves or scales, worn by Roman soldiers; also used in England until the reign of Edward I. Cormontaigne System of Fortification. — A modification of Vauban's first method, in which batteries, ample means taken more to cover masonry from distant and in are which capacious bastions, enlarged dem i-lune, and enlarged reentering place of arms, containing a redoubt, are provided.