cuisset
cuisset noun: synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
Noun
cuisset (plural cuissets)
- Synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
- 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.1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons ...
- [...] appears worn horizontally about the loins; the thighs are covered in front by cuissets reaching to the knees [...]1834, Matthew Holbeche Bloxam, A Glimpse at the Monumental Architecture and Sculpture of Great Britain, from the Earliest Period to the Eighteenth Century, page 264
Examples of cuisset in a sentence
- 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 ...1980, Anne Denieul-Cormier, Wise and Foolish Kings: The First House of Valois, 1328-1498, Doubleday Books:
- ... the back pouldrons, vanbraces, two gauntlets, tassets, cuissets, culets, or guard de rein, all fitting to [...]1831, George Robert Gleig, Lives of the Most Eminent British Military Commanders, page 41:
Synonyms of cuisset
Forms of cuisset
| plural | cuissets |
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Questions about cuisset
- What does cuisset mean?
- Cuisset means synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
- How do you use cuisset in a sentence?
- 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 ...
- What part of speech is cuisset?
- Cuisset is a noun.
- What is the plural of cuisset?
- The plural of cuisset is cuissets.
Words near cuisset in the dictionary
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