cuissette

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwisɛt/

Noun

cuissette (plural cuissettes)

1. (rare) A small or light cuisse.
   • 1821, Archaeologia, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts, Relating to Antiquity, page 145:

     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  […]

   • 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:

     […] two pairs of cuissettes, and two testieres for horses.

Alternative forms

• guissette

Related terms

• cuisse, cuissard