tasset
either of two pieces of plate armor hanging from the fauld to protect the upper parts of the thighs.
Origin of tasset
1- Also tace, tasse [tas]. /tæs/.
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How to use tasset in a sentence
When the tassets were discarded about the end of the sixteenth century the cuisses were laminated in this way from waist to knee.
Armour & Weapons | Charles John FfoulkesThe tassets are made in two or more pieces, connected with the strap and sliding rivet described in the preceding chapter.
Armour & Weapons | Charles John FfoulkesThe tassets are replaced by laminar cuissarts extending to the knee, below which the suit is not continued.
Armour in England | J. Starkie GardnerThe foot soldiers of the period were armed with a breast and back plate, and with tassets reaching to the knees.
A Handbook of Pictorial History | Henry W. DonaldThe opening between the tassets is defended by the skirt of the hauberk, worn beneath the cuirass.
Spanish Arms and Armour | Albert F. Calvert
British Dictionary definitions for tasset
tasse (tæs) or less commonly tace
/ (ˈtæsɪt) /
a piece of armour consisting of one or more plates fastened on to the bottom of a cuirass to protect the thigh
Origin of tasset
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