cuisser

English

Etymology

Middle English quisser. Compare cuisse, cuisset.

Noun

cuisser (plural cuissers)

1. (rare) Synonym of cuisse
   • 1822, Spirit of the English Magazines, page 473:

     They have girded on his shirt of mail, his cuissers well they've clasp'd, And they've harr'd the helm on his visage pale, and his hand the lance hath grasp'd And they have caught the old grey steed, the borse of Trebizond, […]

   • 1920, Jonathan Baum, “Fashions of Another Day”, in Clothing Trade Journal, page 168:

     Elizabeth's notables outside of court wore rapiers with cup-hilts and cuissers or overlapping plates of armour on the thigh.