Kirsey

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Kirsey (formerly Kersey) is a coarse, thick, smooth woven, after walking only washed out, but neither roughened nor sheared material (ie a coarse unappretiertes cloth ), in individual armies and soldiers to coats. the like. Used, e.g. B. in the Prussian army or in the German army of the imperial era, the cuirassiers' Koller consisted of Kirsey.

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  • Lueger, Otto: Lexicon of all technology and its auxiliary sciences, Vol. 5 Stuttgart, Leipzig 1907, p. 487.