Cuisset
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cuisset is a noun meaning Synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
Meaning
Synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
Example Sentences
... the back pouldrons, vanbraces, two gauntlets, tassets, cuissets, culets, or guard de rein, all fitting to [...]
[...] appears worn horizontally about the loins; the thighs are covered in front by cuissets reaching to the knees [...]
Mr. Hasted, author of the History of Kent, in causing a cellar to be made, found two bodies in armour, with a sword and dagger lying by them: the armour was a helmet, back and breast-piece with cuissets for the thighs.
Then they brought out the armor. They attached the sollerets to the shoes, placed the greves and the cuissets on the legs, the genouillères on the thighs and continued on to the upper body—forearms, upper arms, and gauntlets—and .
Word Forms
- cuissets
Synonyms for cuisset
Depending on context, synonyms include cuisse, cuissette.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include quisset, cuisser, cush-cush, capette, tass, costule.
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