tasses

/T AE1 S AH0 Z/
noun
  1. 1

    A piece of armor for the thighs, forming an appendage to the ancient corselet. Usually the tasse was a plate of iron swinging from the cuirass, but the skirts of sliding splints were also called by this name.

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