Lorica (), a Latin word literally meaning "
body armour
Body armor, also known as body armour, personal armor or armour, or a suit or coat of armor, is protective clothing designed to absorb or deflect physical attacks. Historically used to protect military personnel, today it is also used by variou ...
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* A number of types of
Ancient Roman military clothing Ancient Times, Roman. - 017 - Costumes of All Nations (1882).
Military of the Roman Republic and Empire wore loosely regulated dress and armour. The contemporary concept of uniforms was not part of Roman culture and there were considerable differen ...
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Lorica hamata
The ''lorica hamata'' (in Latin with normal elision: ) is a type of mail armor used by soldiers for over 600 years (3rd century BC to 4th century AD) from the Roman Republic to the Roman Empire. ''Lorica hamata'' comes from the Latin ''hamatus'' ( ...
, a hauberk of mail
**Lorica musculata, a folk term for a
muscle cuirass
In classical antiquity, the muscle cuirass ( la, lorica musculata), anatomical cuirass, or heroic cuirass is a type of cuirass made to fit the wearer's torso and designed to mimic an idealized male human physique. It first appears in late Archaic ...
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Lorica plumata, a shirt of ribbed scales resembling feathers
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Lorica squamata
The ''lorica squamata'' () is a type of scale armour used by the ancient Roman military during the Roman Republic and at later periods. It was made from small metal scales sewn to a fabric backing. No examples of an entire ''lorica squamata'' h ...
, a shirt of metal scales
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Lorica segmentata
The ''lorica segmentata'' (), also called ''lorica lamminata'' (see Lorica segmentata#Name, §Name), is a type of personal armour that was used by soldiers of the Roman army, consisting of Laminar armor, metal strips fashioned into circular band ...
, a cuirass of metal plates
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Lorica (prayer) In the Celtic Christianity, Irish (Hiberno-Scottish mission, Hiberno-Scottish) Monastery, monastic tradition, a lorica is a prayer recited for protection. It is essentially a 'protection prayer' in which the petitioner invokes all the power of God a ...
, an invocation in the Christian monastic tradition
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Leiden Riddle The "Leiden Riddle" is an Old English riddle (which also survives in a similar form in the Exeter Book known as Exeter Book Riddle 33 or 35). It is noteworthy for being one of the earliest attested pieces of English poetry; one of only a small numbe ...
, one of the ''Enigmata'' by the Anglo-Saxon poet Aldhelm
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Loriga
Loriga () is a civil parish ( pt, freguesia) and town in south-central part of the municipality of Seia, in central Portugal. Part of the district of Guarda, it is 20 km away from the city of Seia, 40 km away from Viseu, 80 km aw ...
, Serra da Estrela in central Portugal, originally named ''Lorica'' by the Romans
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Santa Cruz de Lorica
Santa Cruz de Lorica is a town and municipality located in the Córdoba Department, northern Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nica ...
, a small Colombian town in the province of Córdoba
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Lorica (material), a type of artificial leather
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''Lorica'' (chiton), a genus of chiton
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Litoria lorica'', a species of frog
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Lorica (biology)
In biology, a lorica is a shell-like protective outer covering, often reinforced with sand grains and other particles that some protozoans and loriciferan animals secrete. Usually it is tubular or conical in shape, with a loose case that is closed ...
, a structure secreted by some of the protozoans
* A basket-shaped "house" formed by
choanoflagellates
The choanoflagellates are a group of free-living unicellular and colonial flagellate eukaryotes considered to be the closest living relatives of the animals. Choanoflagellates are collared flagellates, having a funnel shaped collar of interconn ...
* A protective covering surrounding flagellated cells of some
algae groups
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