. . .a gauge for measuring the length of a lobster's carapace from the thorax to the eye socket.
-- Richard Adams Carey, Against the Tide
Hannah Jelkes, . . . who wears an air of cool reserve like a carapace.
-- Howard Taubman, "Theatre: 'Night of the Iguana' Opens", New York Times, December 29, 1961
Desperate to win his father's attention and respect, Kennedy became a hard man for a long while, covering over his sensitivity and capacity for empathy with a carapace of arrogance.
-- Evan Thomas, Robert Kennedy: His Life
Eisenman, who is Meier's second cousin, was so neurotically insecure about his abilities that he sought to hide them within the dense carapace of arcane theory.
-- Martin Filler, "The Spirit of '76", New Republic, July 9, 2001
Almost all the vivid, eyewitness accounts we have . . . date from a quarter of a century later, when Degas, celebrated and successful, had developed a crusty, cantankerous carapace, from which he emerged occasionally to deliver his famously caustic and enigmatic mots.
-- Christopher E. G. Benfey, Degas in New Orleans
