car|a|pace «KAR uh pays», noun.
1. a shell or bony covering on the back or part of the back of turtles, armadillos, and crustaceans such as lobsters and crabs.
2. a) any hard outer covering: »
... the large, rusting carapace of a 1957 Chevrolet (New Yorker).
b) Figurative: »Behind Baudelaire's carapace is a sensibility always struggling for transcendence (Saturday Review).
╂[< French carapace < Spanish carapacho]
Useful english dictionary. 2012.