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cuissette en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /kwisɛt/

Etymology

From Middle English quischete, Old French cuissete (modern French cuissette).

Meanings

1. (rare) A small or light cuisse.
   • […] two pairs of cuissettes, and two testieres for horses. 1842, Samuel Rush Meyrick, A Critical Inquiry Into Antient Armour, as it Existed in Europe, Particularly in Great Britain, from the Norman Conquest to the Reign of King Charles II: Ill. by a Series of Illuminated Engravings : with a Glossary of Military Terms of the Middle Ages, page 159:
   • The cuissettes are in several pieces and covered by cuissarts. The upper edges, in this instructive specimen of plate armour, of the pauldrons, are turned up so as in some degree to protect the neck, which evidently gave rise to […] 1821, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity, page 145:

Forms

Relateds

cuissard · cuisse