cuisset

cuisset (plural cuissets)

1. Synonym of cuisse or cuissette.
   • 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons ...:

     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.

   • 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:

     [...] appears worn horizontally about the loins; the thighs are covered in front by cuissets reaching to the knees [...]

   • 1980, Anne Denieul-Cormier, Wise and Foolish Kings: The First House of Valois, 1328-1498, Doubleday Books:

     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 ...

   • 1831, George Robert Gleig, Lives of the Most Eminent British Military Commanders, page 41:

     ... the back pouldrons, vanbraces, two gauntlets, tassets, cuissets, culets, or guard de rein, all fitting to [...]